hostapd brings interface down on startup

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 08:06:38PM +0200, Wolfram Schlich wrote:

> The driver author in this case is Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com>?

Yes.

> Maybe I should contact him regarding the issues I have with
> the madwifi-driver of hostapd...

I would recommend starting with the current maintainers of
madwifi-driver (their mailing list). If they agree that there is no need
to bring down the interface with the current driver version, hostapd
could be modified to not do it.
 
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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA