iwconfig error

Jean Tourrilhes jt
Thu Mar 13 19:07:39 PST 2003


On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:25:08PM -0500, Sergio M. Ammirata wrote:
> > > Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" : SET failed on device wlan0,
> > Invalid
> > > argument.
> 
> This error happened to me once. After a reboot, I could not get hostapd
> to start. It would always give that error.
> I restarted the machine and it has not happened again. Scary!!
> 
> Sergio

	From the log (dmesg), it look that this case was an hardware
problem.

	Jean




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