Bug#489915: madwifi-source: iwconfig fails to move the card to Ad-Hoc mode

[Jabka Atu]

Package: madwifi-source
Version: 1:0.9.4~rc2-1
Severity: important

Moving a card to Ad-Hoc mode should be done directly by  iwconfig but 
normal change by iwconfig interface mode Ad-Hoc return an error :
"Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument"

but if i reload the moudle with the parameter "modprobe ath_pci 
autocreate=adhoc" .

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages madwifi-source depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-0.1  high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper                     7.0.10     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11.0  tool to make module package creati

madwifi-source recommends no packages.

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