Issues bringing up bcm4312 as AP on Fedora 13 w/ 0.7.2

[Philip Prindeville]

  I'm running Fedora 13 (updated, so 2.6.33.6) and downloaded and installed (from source) hostapd-0.7.2.

I also grabbed the BCM4312 firmware from Broadcom, and ran fwcutter on it.

I turned on PIO mode in /etc/modprobe.d/b43.conf as an option...

Rebooted...

And tried to run hostapd.  Saw the following:

$ sudo ./hostapd -K -d -d -d -d -d -d /etc/hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
ctrl_interface_group=0
nl80211: Register Action command failed: ret=-95 (Operation not supported)
nl80211: Register Action match - hexdump(len=1): 06
nl80211: Failed to register Action frame processing - ignore for now
nl80211: Add own interface ifindex 3
nl80211: New interface mon.wlan0 created: ifindex=7
nl80211: Add own interface ifindex 7
BSS count 1, BSSID mask 00:00:00:00:00:00 (0 bits)
nl80211: Added 802.11b mode based on 802.11g information
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=27 dBm
RATE[0] rate=10 flags=0x1
RATE[1] rate=20 flags=0x1
RATE[2] rate=55 flags=0x1
RATE[3] rate=110 flags=0x1
RATE[4] rate=60 flags=0x0
RATE[5] rate=90 flags=0x0
RATE[6] rate=120 flags=0x0
RATE[7] rate=180 flags=0x0
RATE[8] rate=240 flags=0x0
RATE[9] rate=360 flags=0x0
RATE[10] rate=480 flags=0x0
RATE[11] rate=540 flags=0x0
Completing interface initialization
Mode: IEEE 802.11g  Channel: 1  Frequency: 2412 MHz
nl80211: Failed to set channel (freq=2412): -22 (Invalid argument)
Could not set channel for kernel driver
wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
Flushing old station entries
Deauthenticate all stations
rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
nl80211: Remove interface ifindex=7
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=0, operstate=6


Not sure what I'm missing here.

I loaded up the b43, cfg80211, mac80211, and lib80211 modules.

I set "driver=nl80211" in /etc/hostapd.conf

It looks like there's a mismatch going on in the netlink stuff, but there shouldn't be.

I'm using the current Fedora libnl (and libnl-devel) stuff, which is 1.1 based.

What else should I be looking at?

Thanks.