"Hardware does not support configured mode" on AR9285 / ath9k

[Peter Michelis]

Ok ... I works now with the help of Jouni Malinen.

I will try your setup. Thank you very much for your help!

Bye
Peter

Tom Jaster schrieb:
> Hi,
> i think i have the same chip (shows AR928X in sysinfo),
> i see that you're using Karmic Koala, please try the mainline Kernel 
> (2.6.32) with newest _self compiled_ hostapd version (don't forget the 
> compile flags).
> 
> I had the same Problems with Karmic and hostapd from the repository, 
> even if you get it to work you'll likely have problems with reconnecting 
> to the network.
> Using my setup _should_ solve it (worked for some guys)
> 
> If you are still having problems, please post your log and your config
> 
> - Tom
> 
> 2009/12/13 Peter Michelis <peter.michelis at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:peter.michelis at googlemail.com>>
> 
>     Hello!
> 
>     I am trying to build an access point with an Atheros AR9285 Card. The
>     lspci-id is 168c:002b (rev 01).
> 
>     I am using an Ubuntu Distribution with the shipped kernel
>     2.6.31-16-generic-pae and hostapd 0.6.9.
> 
>     I configured the hostapd to use the nl80211 driver.  When I start
>     hostapd on the wlan0 interface with "hostapd -d hostapd.conf" i get:
> 
>     ------
>     Configuration file: hostapd.conf
>     ctrl_interface_group=0
>     Opening raw packet socket for ifindex -1215651852
>     BSS count 1, BSSID mask ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (0 bits)
>     SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf
>     nl80211: Added 802.11b mode based on 802.11g information
>     Hardware does not support configured mode
>     wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured mode (2)
>     Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-1)
>     wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
>     ------
> 
>     I also tried the latest hostapd 0.7 with the same result.
> 
>     A bit strange after running hostapd: iwconfig gives me:
> 
>     ------
>     wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  Mode:Master  Frequency:2.427 GHz
>      Tx-Power=20 dBm
>               Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>               Encryption key:off
>               Power Management:off
>               Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>               Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>               Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>     ------
> 
>     This means that the wireless device is runnung in Master Mode but not
>     with hostapd, right??!
> 
>     By the way - wpa_supplicant is running very well with wpa2 on the
>     device.
> 
>     Any ideas how I get hostapd running? Thank you very much for your help!
> 
>     Bye
>     Peter
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