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x220user

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Registered: 2012-08-21

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hostapd not working any more, worked a couple of months ago

Several months ago, in november 2011, I was playing a bit with hostapd and got my laptop working as a wireless access point. Today, I wanted to use the access point again, but couldn't start hostapd. I didn't change any configuration files, but of course did archlinux upgrades since november.
Does anyone have any idea why my configuration shouldn't be working any more? What has changed since november that makes my configuration from then not work any more?

What is weird is that I found several posts about the iwlwifi driver for the Centrino 6205 wireless card not supporting AP-mode. But I already had AP mode working on this card (don't know which driver I was using back then). Do I have to use a different driver?

I had successfully been using back in november:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig wlan0 down

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth0
brctl setfd br0 0

hostapd -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

brctl addif br0 wlan0 

sleep 1

ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig br0 up

dhcpcd br0

now when I run hostapd, I get

# hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Failed to update rate sets in kernel module
Could not connect to kernel driver.
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx and ssid 'testnet'
Failed to set beacon parameters

Last edited by x220user (2012-08-21 22:32:04)