On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:11:35PM +0430, Aniss Maghsoudlou wrote: > I'm new to hostapd and now I'm trying to run hostapd_cli which after 2 > days of tracing the error, now I know that its problem is in > wpa_ctrl_open2 when it's going to connect the socket. connect return > -1 and sets the errno to 111 which is apparently connection refused. > > to reach where I'm now, I have made a directory named hostapd in > var/run and made an empty file name aniss.tmp and now running the cli > using this command: sudo ./hostapd_cli -s /var/run/hostapd. before > doing these, I had some other errors. > Btw, it's still showing me the error: > > couldn't connect to hostapd - re-trying How have you configured hostapd to open the control interface? Is the socket file in /var/run/hostapd after the hostapd process is started? -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap