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E_user

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] - Access point on ath9k

Asus AT510NT-I DELUXE
lspci -k

09:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
        Subsystem: AzureWave Device 1d89
        Kernel driver in use: ath9k

Good day,

I trying create AP on my computer. But I have some problems.

Trying that instruction.

At the 4th point I belive I have to set mode Master on my card. But I had output:

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

Then I found this and this pages.
I understand that I have to install pacman -S hostapd and compile &install hostapd from source. Before compilation I had configure CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y.

I don't understand why? How can it can help me? I have same output at:
./hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf   # compilled
and
hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf   # from pacman

#Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 12:34:56:ff:ff:78 and ssid 'test'

I still don't see how can I set mode Master on my card. I have read somewere that I have to use iw command. Something like iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type ap, but it doesn't work.

Please, help me.

Thank you.

I'm an idiot. I had just all text. hostapd -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf is solution.

Last edited by E_user (2012-01-28 22:27:36)