Hello:<br><br>Mailing list newb here... please forgive me if I breech protocol or if I've hit a subject that's been covered many times...<br><br>
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<p><span lang="en-US">When I type the command</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span lang="en-US">[root@Joshiba ajachimiak]# hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="en-US">I get the following output:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span lang="en-US">ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span lang="en-US">nl80211 driver initialization failed.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span lang="en-US">rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">
<br><span lang="en-US"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="en-US">I'm running:<br></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="en-US">Fedora 12</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="en-US">Kernel Linux 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="en-US">If it helps I have a Linksys WRTG 54 card that works fine for wireless access to another AP...</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US">If you provide terminal commands I should be able to wade through this problem. If you just tell me to tweak my kernel or something to that effect - I will get lost.<br></span></p>
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<span lang="en-US">Thanks!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="en-US">Al</span></p>
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