Larry Finger wrote: > On 07/30/2011 01:14 PM, Laurence Darby wrote: > > > > I have now enabled rfkill. The hostapd error message is now: > > > > Hardware does not support configured mode > > wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured mode (2) > > Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-2) > > wlan0: Unable to setup interface. > > rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory > > Please post your hostapd.conf. I don't have any ath9k hardware and > cannot check that it works with, but other wireless devices work with > > interface=wlan0 > driver=nl80211 > hw_mode=g > channel=1 > ssid=test2 > #wpa=2 > #wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > #wpa_pairwise=CCMP > #wpa_passphrase="deleted" > > Larry Ah, thanks, that does work and my other devices can see it now! I was using the unmodified hostapd.conf, which has hw_mode=a, but this device only supports modes b,g & n. That is what the error is talking about, not the Master/Ad-Hoc mode which I thought it was trying to configure (which it is as well, actually). Would be good if the error message included the mode it's trying to configure, instead of "(2)", that would definitely have stopped me getting confused here. Some more reasons I didn't think this supported AP mode: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers has 'no' for AP support for the ath9k_htc, that conflicts with the driver page, and # iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed works, while # iwconfig wlan0 mode Master always gives: Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. With hostapd running, iwconfig says: wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off and reverts to Mode:Managed if I stop hostapd, so I'm not sure why iwconfig can't change it... Ok, http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd does say that hw_mode needs to be set correctly, but it wasn't obvious enough that's what the problem was. The error and solution could be added to where ./hostapd gets started. Also, it refers to a hostapd-minimal.conf, I couldn't see that anywhere, that's why I used the default hostapd.conf. Laurence
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