no priv ioctls....?

[bdajohnson at comcast.net]

Greetings,  

I am new to this, and have figured out quite a few problems but I am stuck on this one.

I installed the hostap drivers, but when I try:   "iwpriv wlan0 hostapd  1"  the response I get is "wlan0  no private ioctls."

I have done quite a bit of searching around, but have not had and luck finding the right solution.  (it would really help if I knew what I was doing!! lol)

If anyone can shed some light on this, please do.

Thanks :)

BDA