40Mhz Channel width, scanning for neighboring BSSes

Robert Henning robert at ponyslaystation.org
Thu Feb 11 02:30:27 PST 2016


Problem solved ...
I changed my init-srcipt so the interface starts in managed mode,
now hostapd is scanning as expected

thanks for the hint

Am 10.02.2016 um 16:18 schrieb Dan Williams:
> On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 17:06 +0100, Robert Henning wrote:
>> I am trying to get 40MHz channel width going.
>> But someone hostap isn't scanning for neighboring BSSes
>>
>> the end of the output of hostapd -dd looks as follows :
>>
>> hw vht capab: 0x0, conf vht capab: 0x0
>> wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->HT_SCAN
>> Scan for neighboring BSSes prior to enabling 40 MHz channel
>> 40 MHz affected channel range: [2392,2472] MHz
>> wlan0: nl80211: scan request
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2412 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2417 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2422 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2427 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2432 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2437 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2442 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2447 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2452 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2457 MHz
>> nl80211: Scan frequency 2462 MHz
>> Scan requested (ret=0) - scan timeout 10 seconds
>> Interface initialization will be completed in a callback
>> ctrl_iface not configured!
>>
>> Maybe, cause the interface was already in master mode?
> Probably, yes.  hostap doesn't appear to set NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_AP which
> is what 'ap-force' does, so the driver will probably reject the
> scan request.  That flag has been around since 2012, so there may be a
> good reason hostapd doesn't set it, but I'll leave that up to Jouni.
>
> Dan
>
>> After hostapd starts, i am unable to scan as well, i have to use
>>
>> iw dev wlan0 scan ap-force
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any hints, on how to solve the problem
>>
>>
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