carl9170-driver usable as AccessPoint

carl9170-driver usable as AccessPoint

[Louis]

Hello, 

I am trying to set up an Accesspoint using the Fritz!WLAN USB Stick N with the carl9170-1.9.4 driver. The system runs on a 3.0-rc2 kernel. 

When trying to use hostapd-0.8, I get following error message: 
"nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan1 into AP mode"

Can you you give me a hint if there is something wrong in my setup ?
Or is AP- usage not supported in the carl9170 driver? 

Is there another way (or maybe driver) which can set the wifi-stick into master mode ? 


Louis
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Re: carl9170-driver usable as AccessPoint

[Christian Lamparter]

On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:18:29 AM Louis wrote:
> I am trying to set up an Accesspoint using the Fritz!WLAN USB Stick N with
> the carl9170-1.9.4 driver. The system runs on a 3.0-rc2 kernel. 
That's a misprint, right?! Because 3.0.3 still ships with 1.9.2.
 
> When trying to use hostapd-0.8, I get following error message: 
> "nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan1 into AP mode"
That's a generic error message. You'll to be more precise in fact
hostapd has a -d and -dd switch which makes the output more
verbose. 

> Can you you give me a hint if there is something wrong in my setup?
No, 'cause you haven't shown us any of your setup :D.

> Or is AP- usage not supported in the carl9170 driver?
It is. As long as noone disables it.
 
> Is there another way (or maybe driver) which can set the wifi-stick
> into master mode ? 
Well, now that you mention it: a different stick. For example the
Fritz!WLAN USB Stick N. Even though this stick has the same
name, it's quite different, they now stick AR7010+AR9280 chips
into the device and ath9k_htc is the driver.