linux - How to move wireless connection to other network namespace?

# ip link set  wlan0 netns 1
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

It works for usual ethernet. It also works for proprietary broadcom "wl" driver.

How to do it for usual mac80211-based driver?

Answer

You need to move the PHY:

iw phy phy0 set netns 666

Where 666 is the pid of some process running in that network namespace; for netspaces created by iproute2 tools (with ip netns), you can create a short-lived process in there and get its pid:

iw phy phy0 set netns "$(ip netns exec mynetns sh -c '
  sleep 1 >&- & echo "$!"')"

To move it back to the root namespace:

ip netns exec mynetns iw phy phy0 set netns 1