[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other

[Grant]

I'm trying to set up ath5k in master mode.  I get this from the hostapd ebuild:

 * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card
 * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start
 * /etc/init.d/hostapd.
 *
 * Example configuration:
 *
 * config_wlan0=( "192.168.1.1/24" )
 * channel_wlan0="6"
 * essid_wlan0="test"
 * mode_wlan0="master"

But doing that I get:

ath0 does not support setting the mode to "master"

and madwifi IRC says:

"you can't use iwconfig to set master mode you need to do that with hostapd"

Does anyone know how to reconcile this?

- Grant