I updated the firmware with the one provided by Bing in his message and built hostapd from the commit id I got from Avinash. hostapd starts up correctly and is exposing the access point. Thanks to the both of you for your help!!! Best Regards, Hans -- 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