modprobe: Can't locate module wlan0ap

[Yuchung Cheng]

On 02-26-2003, bzhou at spectrumselect.com wrote:
> hostap runs good on my platform. I am using redhat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.20, compiled with wireless extension patch as V16.
> I tried so many times to load up hostapd but it doesnt work. I always make pccard EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DPRISM_HOSTAPD", seems modprobe tried to load wlan0ap, but it failed. Anyone could give me a hint? Thanks.
> 
> 
> hostapd]# ./hostapd wlan0
> ioctl(SIOCGIFINDEX): No such device
> ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
> 
try build hostap with HOSTAPD support by uncommenting it in the
hostap_config.h.