<DIV>Nazeer,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I did see master and run ifconfig ath0 up.</DIV> <DIV>Do you have a working madwifi.conf for hostapd?</DIV> <DIV>This is my first time for hostapd.</DIV> <DIV>wpa_supplicant is working now. But AP side is needed to be set up by hostapd.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>---henry<BR><BR><BR><B><I>Nazeer Khan <Nazeer.Khan@nicta.com.au></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><BR>Check if ur interface is in MASTER mode or not. I also encountered such<BR>problems but found out that my interface was not in MASTER mode.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR><BR>> List,<BR>><BR>> My hostapd is compiled successfully. But "hostapd madwifi.conf" returns<BR>> following errors<BR>><BR>> Configuration file: /opt/madwifi.conf<BR>> ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Invalid argument<BR>> Could not connect to kernel
driver.<BR>> Using interface ath0 with hwaddr 00:0f:b5:35:79:92 and ssid 'wpa-test'<BR>> l2_packet_receive - recvfrom: Network is down<BR>><BR>> Does anyone knows why it reurns those errors?<BR>><BR>> Thanks for comment.<BR>><BR>> ----henry<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> HostAP mailing list<BR>> HostAP@shmoo.com<BR>> http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/hostap<BR>><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>This email and any attachments may be confidential. They may contain legally<BR>privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy,<BR>use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended<BR>recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both<BR>messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus,<BR>data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or
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