[Madwifi-users] Fwd: iwpriv no private ioctls

[Xavi D. <piq...@gm...>]

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From: Michael Renzmann <ma...@no...>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:26:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] iwpriv no private ioctls
To: Xavi Deop <piq...@gm...>
Cc: mad...@li...

Hi.

> I've downloaded madwifi 0.9.2 and my card works fine. But when I execute:
> iwpriv ath0 I get the response:
> atho no private ioctls.
>
> Can anyone help me? I would like to be able to change between a/b/g modes.

Make sure that your distribution does not rename the interface that
originally was named "wifi0" to "ath0". If you're not sure about that,
please show us the output of "ifconfig ath0".

Bye, Mike

The output of "ifconfig ath0" is:

root@deop:/home/xavi# ifconfig ath0
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:3D:AF:BB:D1
          inet addr:10.3.86.73  Bcast:10.3.86.127  Mask:255.255.255.192
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:631 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:481 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:180020 (175.8 Kb)  TX bytes:78107 (76.2 Kb)