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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:58 +0530
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
CC: Jonathan Bagg <jbagg@lenbrook.com>,
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Subject: Re: ath6kl in compat wireless supports AP mode?
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Kalle Valo wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> sorry for answering late.
> 
> On 01/14/2012 12:03 AM, Jonathan Bagg wrote:
> > Anybody know if the ath6kl driver in compat wireless supports AP mode?
> > 
> > hostapd hostapd.conf
> > nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode
> > nl80211 driver initialization failed.
> > 
> > hostapd.conf
> > interface=wlan0
> > driver=nl80211
> > ssid=test
> > channel=1
> > 
> > Using
> > hostapd v0.7.3
> > libnl-2.0
> 
> Most of the ath6kl developers use wpasupplicants AP mode for this so I
> recommend trying with wpasupplicant first. It might be that hostapd
> requires something which ath6kl doesn't support.

hostapd works fine, but a recent git version is probably required.
v0.7.3 is a bit old, I think.

Sujith