Hostapd throwing warnings

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Oct 15, 2020, at 11:32 AM, Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:18:24AM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a WLE600VX card in an APU4 running HEAD as of a week ago.
>> 
>> My /etc/config/wireless file is straightforward:
>> 
>> config wifi-device 'radio0'
>> 	option type 'mac80211'
>> 	option channel '36'
>> 	option hwmode '11a'
>> 	option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:02.5/0000:05:00.0'
>> 	option htmode 'VHT80'
>> 	option disabled '0'
>> 
>> config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
>> 	option device 'radio0'
>> 	option network 'lan'
>> 	option mode 'ap'
>> 	option hidden '1'
>> 	option ssid ‘xyzzy'
>> 	option encryption 'psk2+aes'
>> 	option key ‘my-passphrase-here’
>> 
>> But I’m seeing the following warnings:
>> 
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 hostapd: Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf (phy wlan0) --> new PHY
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 hostapd: Line 16: unknown configuration item 'ieee80211ac'
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 hostapd: Line 17: unknown configuration item 'vht_oper_chwidth'
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 hostapd: Line 18: unknown configuration item 'vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx'
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 hostapd: Line 19: unknown configuration item 'vht_capab'
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 hostapd: 4 errors found in configuration file '/var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf'
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 hostapd: Failed to set up interface with /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf
>> Oct 14 18:29:23 OpenWrt2 netifd: radio0 (4034): Command failed: Invalid argument
>> 
>> 
>> On booting.
>> 
>> If I comment out these lines being generated in /lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh then WiFi works.
>> 
>> Is anyone else seeing this?
>> 
>> I’m using:
>> 
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct-full-htt=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_wireless-regdb=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ath=y
>> CONFIG_ATH_USER_REGD=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_ATH_DFS=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ath10k-ct=y
>> CONFIG_ATH10K-CT_LEDS=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-cfg80211=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-mac80211=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_MAC80211_DEBUGFS=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_MAC80211_MESH=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_hostapd-common=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_hostapd-openssl=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_hostapd-utils=y
>> CONFIG_DRIVER_11N_SUPPORT=y
>> CONFIG_DRIVER_11AC_SUPPORT=y
>> CONFIG_DRIVER_11W_SUPPORT=y
>> CONFIG_PACKAGE_iw=y
>> 
>> Am I doing anything wrong?
>> 
>> Oh, also, in /etc/config/network, do I need to explicitly add wlan0 to my bridge for “lan” or does that happen automatically?
> 
> Looks like CONFIG_DRIVER_11AC_SUPPORT=y isn't really set in the end,
> usually it should be auto-selected based on the driver you are using,
> ie. kmod-ath10k in your case. Those CONFIG_DRVIVER_* symbols are not
> meant to be selected manually.
> Are you using an out-of-tree WiFi driver or any changes like that?


I commented out CONFIG_DRIVER_* and reran “make defconfig oldconfig” and those 3 got turned back on.

Is there something else I should be doing?

And no, not an out-of-tree build… unless it’s using backports and that’s considered out-of-tree?

-Philip