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I recently bought a TL-WN951N PCI card, it gets detected right and the module being used is ath9k.

When trying to set it to master mode however, it prints:

$ iwconfig int1 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device int1 ; Invalid argument.

OS (from uname -a): Linux foo 3.2.0-3-686-pae #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 03:50:34 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

Anybody knows why?

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  • If you want to answer your own question, just post an actual answer and accept it as the working solution later. Please don't put any solutions into your question :) Oct 10, 2012 at 13:04

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Well, apparently newer wireless-tools requires hostapd in order to set an wireless extension in Master mode. They also deny manual setting of the Master mode for some reason.

So I guess it's "Solved"

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