question setting hostap: no such device

[Peyush Agarwal]

Try restarting your pcmcia services using
/etc/init.rd/pcmcia stop
/etc/init.rd/pcmcia start

and then do     ifconfig -a    to find out whether wlan0 really exists.


Yuchung Cheng wrote:

> hi,
>
> i am new to hostap and i have problems making it work. i have
> successfully compiled and loaded kernel modules.  when i do
>
> # ifconfig wlan0 up
> wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> hostap_cs              41384   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> hostap                 52068   0 (autoclean) [hostap_cs]
> hostap_crypt            1316   0 (autoclean) [hostap]
> ds                      6720   2 [hostap_cs]
> i82365                 22544   2
> pcmcia_core            41568   0 [hostap_cs ds i82365]
> 3c59x                  24808   1
>
> i put alias wlan0 hostap_cs in modules.conf. what should i do to
> start it up?
>
> btw, can hostap operates in normal station mode and have PSM on?
> any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Yuchung
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