These patches add AP through hostapd support for the ath5k and ath9k driver. These patches were applied and checked against the following git tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git;a=snapshot;h=3eb75aac8907e7ea36f0d078b2cc7393986001cf there are two working branches: working/basic and working/full. the later adds support for ath9k along with some additional patches posted on wireless-testing mailing list. all working branches have been tested and work fine!