From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
To: Dennis Borgmann <dennis.borgmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: hostap@lists.shmoo.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath9k+hostapd = "Could not set DTIM period for kernel driver"
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:08:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100220180831.GA22238@jm.kir.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7EB318.3010707@googlemail.com>
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 04:49:44PM +0100, Dennis Borgmann wrote:
> Ok, now I get the card running, iw can access it (see below for output
> of iw list). I tried to make it become an accesspoint by using hostapd
> in version 0.6.10(self-compiled for this sole purpose).
> Could not set DTIM period for kernel driver
> wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
This is a bug in hostapd 0.6.10. I would suggest using the latest 0.7.x
version (currently, 0.7.1) when using AP mode with mac80211-based
drivers. Alternatively, you can get a fix for this from the current
snapshot of the 0.6.x branch (and eventually, 0.6.11, once that is
released).
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2010-02-19 15:49 ath9k+hostapd = "Could not set DTIM period for kernel driver" Dennis Borgmann
2010-02-20 18:08 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
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