Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:42318 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752424Ab1G3SiL (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:38:11 -0400 Received: by iyb12 with SMTP id 12so5281231iyb.19 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E344F90.4040003@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20110730_203814_522167_AE8CB39E) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:38:08 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurence Darby CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: I'm confused and angry References: <20110730181433.50bd32db.ldarby@tuffmail.com> <4E3442ED.90206@lwfinger.net> <20110730191422.3b2931ba.ldarby@tuffmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110730191422.3b2931ba.ldarby@tuffmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/30/2011 01:14 PM, Laurence Darby wrote: > > I have now enabled rfkill. The hostapd error message is now: > > Hardware does not support configured mode > wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured mode (2) > Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-2) > wlan0: Unable to setup interface. > rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory Please post your hostapd.conf. I don't have any ath9k hardware and cannot check that it works with, but other wireless devices work with interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 hw_mode=g channel=1 ssid=test2 #wpa=2 #wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK #wpa_pairwise=CCMP #wpa_passphrase="deleted" Larry