From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: voncken <cedric.voncken@acksys.fr>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ifconfig down and mac80211 issue
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:40:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320680443.3993.45.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320677698.1687.13.camel@voncken-desktop> (sfid-20111107_161533_878983_7E7F3261)
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 15:54 +0100, voncken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to use rstp protocol (using rstpd ) over
> wireless interfaces (ath9k) and I've noticed some strange hostapd
> behaviour.
>
> Everything seems to work great with wired Ethernet devices.
>
> this is what I do :
> - I have configured an AP (with hostapd), and it works perfectly
> (beacons were sent)
> - ifconfig wlanx down
> - ifconfig wlanx up
>
> after the ifconfig up, the wlanx does not send any beacons although
> clients are perfectly able to associate with (WPA-SUPPLICANT does an
> active scan).
You can't do that. If you set down everything is unconfigured. If you
need to take it down/up then you need to do that before you start
hostapd.
johannes
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