hostapd and Intel AX200...

[Marco Gaiarin]

My home wireless router is a Proxmox VE server, that manage some VMs
bus also my wireless; practically speking is a debian buster (so
hostapd version 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u2, with a slightly
newer kernel, 5.4.78-2-pve).

To improve my wireless experience i've bought a newer PCI-E wireless
card, based on 'Wifi6' Intel AX200 chipset.

Board seems correctly identified by kernel:

 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.398005] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 58.3.35.22
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.398010] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: Found debug destination: EXTERNAL_DRAM
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.398011] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: Found debug configuration: 0
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.398350] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: loaded firmware version 50.3e391d3e.0 op_mode iwlmvm
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.431011] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz, REV=0x340
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.443718] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.444616] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: Allocated 0x00400000 bytes for firmware monitor.
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.603713] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: base HW address: 78:2b:46:2e:4a:87
 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [    8.701453] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0 wls1: renamed from wlan0

but when i run 'hostapd' with a rather standard config file (that work
with current board), hostapd exit silently:

 [...]
 CS: Automatic channel selection started, this may take a bit
 ACS: Scanning 1 / 5
 wls1: nl80211: scan request
 nl80211: Passive scan requested
 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
 nl80211: Scan frequency 2467 MHz
 nl80211: Scan frequency 2472 MHz
 Scan requested (ret=0) - scan timeout 10 seconds
 wls1: interface state COUNTRY_UPDATE->ACS
 wls1: ACS-STARTED 
 Interface initialization will be completed in a callback (ACS)
 ctrl_iface not configured!

on kernel i saw:

 Jan 23 18:40:00 ino kernel: [   12.590677] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: Applying debug destination EXTERNAL_DRAM
 Jan 23 18:40:01 ino kernel: [   12.744547] iwlwifi 0000:10:00.0: FW already configured (0) - re-configuring

What i'm missing? Thanks.

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