Creating an access point with wpa_supplicant via dbus interface

Marlon Smith marlon.smith10 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 16:36:18 EDT 2015


Yep, thanks Dan!  That was the problem.  It's working now.

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 13:54 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 10:20 -0700, Marlon Smith wrote:
> > The driver is rt2800usb and I'm launching it with this command line:
> > 
> >  wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> There's your problem; you want "-Dnl80211".  The supplicant/hostapd WEXT
> driver does not support AP mode.  I'll bet your hostapd config is using
> the nl80211 driver, and you need to use that one with wpa_supplicant
> too.
> 
> Dan
> 
> > On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 10:40 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 15:37 +0300, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 04:13:47PM -0700, Marlon Smith wrote:
> > > > > Ok I got the logs from wpa_supplicant after it was run by my
> > > > > application, and I see this error:
> > > > > 
> > > > > wlan0: Driver does not support AP mode
> > > > 
> > > > Which driver is this?
> > > 
> > > Also (Marlon) are you using the 'nl80211' wpa_supplicant driver or the
> > > 'wext' one?  What command-line are you launching the supplicant with?
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
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