<span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>I am using hostapd with nl80211. I have two concerns:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1) I am running a sniffer on the same machine A that is running hostapd. The sniffer does not capture beacon messages (only captures probe request and response packets, both broadcast and unicast). I ran a sniffer from another machine B (with a different card) in monitor mode, and B does in fact capture beacon messages (but never from A). Is there any reason why I do not sniff beacon frames on A? How can I fix this?</div>
<div><br></div><div>2) I understand that hostapd only configures mac80211 with a template and beacon interval, but does not actually send beacons. Is enabling beacon transmission related to the firmware or driver? I have an AirMagnet C1060 PC card with an an Atheros, ath9k support, chipset that is not sending beacon messages. How should enable beacon transmission?</div>
<div><br></div><div>According to the AirMagnet datasheet, I just noticed they have mentioned the operation mode is only "Infrastructure mode". Could this be why beacons are not being transmitted (although it does respond to Probe request frames)? Or even received (my question 1)?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Lara</div></span>