From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:42765 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933389Ab0I0TrW (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:47:22 -0400 Received: by fxm3 with SMTP id 3so2153573fxm.19 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:47:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Helmut Schaa To: Joshua Smith Subject: Re: Question about starting up an AP Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:46:30 +0200 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com References: <201009271956.41041.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <201009272146.30378.helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Montag 27 September 2010 schrieb Joshua Smith: > Sometimes my Linksys/Cisco WMP600N adapter will not initialize in AP mode. > Prior to going into AP mode, I do 'iw wlan0 scan' and get a bunch of info, > so the hardware is working up to that point. When I try to start hostapd, > I get this error in dmesg: > > phy0 -> rt2800_wait_wpdma_ready: Error - WPDMA TX/RX busy, aborting. > phy0 -> rt2800pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5). Since you've scanned already before, I guess some DMA registers aren't reset correctly when taking the interface down. > (note that I also get this message: > phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from hardware > but I get that when everything works, as well.) Yeah, that shouldn't be related. Helmut