hostapd and Intel AX200...

[Dennis Bland]

Note that the AX200 only supports 2.4 GHz in AP mode, as it does not
have radar detection for the 5 GHz band.

In hostapd.conf, are you setting "hw_mode=g"?  What is the actual
error message that causes hostapd to exit?

Best regards,

Dennis

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> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 18:09:09 +0100
> From: Marco Gaiarin <gaio at lilliput.linux.it>
> To: hostap at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: hostapd and Intel AX200...
> Message-ID: <20210124170909.GQ20060 at lilliput.linux.it>
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> 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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