Description of problem: According to the news on http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ the new rt2x00 became part of the mainline kernel with 2.6.24. And elsewhere on that site I read that it should be possible to put an rt61 based card (a Gigabyte GN-WP01GS in my case) into master mode. But when I try to do that I get an error message: mimmi> sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Master Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. I can switch between Managed, Monitor and Ad-Hoc without any error messages, but Master fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.24.3-34.fc8.x86_64 rt61pci-firmware-1.2-4.noarch
Master mode is not yet supported. It only works with an additional patch applied to the kernel and an unreleased version of hostapd anyway.
Oh, no!