single radio interface, BSS count 2

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Mar 7 11:42:53 EST 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:13:55AM -0600, green wrote:

> Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 02:21:91:01:11:60 and ssid 'Welcome'
> Failed to add BSS (BSSID=02:21:91:01:11:61)
> wlan0: Unable to setup interface.

I don't know what would be causing this. You could try a newer driver
version and/or trying to get some debug information from the driver.

> # ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:21:91:01:11:6f
> # echo "bssid=02:21:91:01:11:6f" >> /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

> # hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf 
> Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
> ctrl_interface_group=50 (from group name 'staff')
> Opening raw packet socket for ifindex -843944955
> wlan0: Unable to setup interface.

This looks odd.. Just to be sure that this was not broken by something
else, I would start with configuration file that has the bssid line in
it and rmmod and modprobe ath9k (or reboot) and then start hostapd
directly..


Anyway, I was unable to reproduce either of these problems with the
current wireless-testing.git (i.e., current Linux kernel wireless
development tree).

Couple of issues in hostapd prevented multi-BSS configuration from
working properly (but none of those would show up this early in the
setup) and those are now fixed in the current hostap.git tree.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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