On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 15:54 +0100, voncken wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently trying to use rstp protocol (using rstpd ) over > wireless interfaces (ath9k) and I've noticed some strange hostapd > behaviour. > > Everything seems to work great with wired Ethernet devices. > > this is what I do : > - I have configured an AP (with hostapd), and it works perfectly > (beacons were sent) > - ifconfig wlanx down > - ifconfig wlanx up > > after the ifconfig up, the wlanx does not send any beacons although > clients are perfectly able to associate with (WPA-SUPPLICANT does an > active scan). You can't do that. If you set down everything is unconfigured. If you need to take it down/up then you need to do that before you start hostapd. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
