hostapd: wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured mode (2)

Jouni Malinen j
Thu Sep 27 18:44:44 PDT 2007


On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:00:11PM +0200, sagends at email.it wrote:
> I have a wireless card whith intersil prism2.5 chip.

Which supports only IEEE 802.11b..

> when start hostapd in log file me appears the following errors:
> Sep 19 17:12:58 debian hostapd: wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not 
> support configured mode (2)

And mode (2) would be IEEE 802.11a.. If you have "hw_mode=a" in the
hostapd.conf file, you will need to change it to hw_mode=b for this
card.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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