need help getting hostapd started, Intel Advanced-N 6205

Peer, Ilan ilan.peer at intel.com
Sat Jan 13 23:41:03 PST 2018


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [mailto:debian at good-with-numbers.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 02:02
> To: hostap at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: Peer, Ilan <ilan.peer at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: need help getting hostapd started, Intel Advanced-N 6205
> 
> On Jan 8, Peer, Ilan wrote:
> > To avoid ACS you can set a specific channel. However, this would not
> > really work as well if you are trying to set the AP on the 5.2GHz band
> > as all the channels are disabled for AP operation due to regulatory
> > constraints of the NIC. You can try and set the AP on the 2.4GHz band ...
> 
> OK, that seems to work.  I see the DHCP packets on wlan0.
> 
> So does ACS just not work on this card? driver?

The driver/device to not support NL80211_CMD_GET_SURVEY command.

Regards,

Ilan



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