After reading this: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/autocreate I'm not sure we need this line in the udev rules: KERNEL=="wifi[0-9]*", DRIVER=="ath_pci", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/sbin/wlanconfig ath create wlandev %k wlanmode sta" (at least my system seems to work without it.) We can still provide that 65-madwifi.rules file with the access point configuration line commented out... Unconfirmed because I'm not sure I understand this VAP stuff entirely. For some reason I can no longer assign to mobile@gentoo.org directly (new bugzilla?) so I CC'd this to mobile@gentoo.org instead.
Correct, the udev rules are no longer needed :) Fixed in net-wireless/madwifi-{driver,tools}-0.1443.20060207. Thank you for reporting this.
Oh my. Good to know that the madwifi-ng team is trying to fix the issue for themselves :) Just a thought, but maybe a notification that the desired VAP operating mode can be added to /etc/modules.d/ (as option autocreate=type) could be added to the ebuild (since iwconfig athX mode does not work).
(In reply to comment #2) > Just a thought, but maybe a notification that the desired VAP operating mode > can be added to /etc/modules.d/ (as option autocreate=type) could be added to > the ebuild (since iwconfig athX mode does not work). That is considered as basic knowledge. The ebuild already installs the files, listing the available options.
