iwconfig error

[Sergio M. Ammirata]

> > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" : SET failed on device wlan0,
> Invalid
> > argument.

This error happened to me once. After a reboot, I could not get hostapd
to start. It would always give that error.
I restarted the machine and it has not happened again. Scary!!

Sergio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hostap-admin at shmoo.com [mailto:hostap-admin at shmoo.com] On Behalf
Of
> Jean Tourrilhes
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:03 PM
> To: hostap at shmoo.com
> Subject: Re: iwconfig error
> 
> Gilad Suberri wrote :
> > Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 14 of
Wireless
> > Extension, while this program is using version 12. Some things may
be
> > broken...
> 
> 	Documented on my web page.
> 
> > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" : SET failed on device wlan0,
> Invalid
> > argument.
> 
> 	This looks like something else.
> 
> 	Jean
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