hostapd and Intel AX200...

[Dennis Bland]

Hi Marco:

Try to assign an actual channel (e.g. 1) instead of using ACS, and
then use Wireshark to see if the beacon is being advertised on that
channel.

Also, is there any reason why you set wpa=1?  WPAv1 is deprecated and
should no longer be used.  For compatibility, set wpa=3, which is bit
0 (WPAv1) and bit 1 (WPAv2) enabled to support both WPAv1 and WPAv2.
Also suggest removing CCMP from wpa_pairwise, as WPAv1 with CCMP is
not officially a valid combination.

Best regards,

Dennis


Mandi! Dennis Bland
  In chel di` si favelave...

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

OK.


> In hostapd.conf, are you setting "hw_mode=g"?

My current board is a:

 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.357496] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x809c
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.357497] ath: EEPROM indicates we
should expect a country code
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.357497] ath: doing EEPROM
country->regdmn map search
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.357498] ath: country maps to
regdmn code: 0x52
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.357499] ath: Country alpha2 being used: CN
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.357500] ath: Regpair used: 0x52
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.359450] ieee80211 phy0: Selected
rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.360504] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros
AR9287 Rev:2 mem=0xffffbf658d4f0000, irq=16
 Jan 23 19:38:20 ino kernel: [    8.362587] ath9k 0000:10:00.0 wls1:
renamed from wlan0

and hostapd conf:

 interface=wls1
 bridge=vmbr0
 driver=nl80211
 logger_syslog=-1
 logger_syslog_level=2
 logger_stdout=-1
 logger_stdout_level=2
 ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
 ctrl_interface_group=0
 ssid=LilliputBBS
 country_code=IT
 ieee80211d=1
 hw_mode=g
 channel=0
 beacon_int=100
 dtim_period=2
 max_num_sta=255
 rts_threshold=-1
 fragm_threshold=-1
 macaddr_acl=0
 auth_algs=1
 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
 wmm_enabled=1
 wmm_ac_bk_cwmin=4
 wmm_ac_bk_cwmax=10
 wmm_ac_bk_aifs=7
 wmm_ac_bk_txop_limit=0
 wmm_ac_bk_acm=0
 wmm_ac_be_aifs=3
 wmm_ac_be_cwmin=4
 wmm_ac_be_cwmax=10
 wmm_ac_be_txop_limit=0
 wmm_ac_be_acm=0
 wmm_ac_vi_aifs=2
 wmm_ac_vi_cwmin=3
 wmm_ac_vi_cwmax=4
 wmm_ac_vi_txop_limit=94
 wmm_ac_vi_acm=0
 wmm_ac_vo_aifs=2
 wmm_ac_vo_cwmin=2
 wmm_ac_vo_cwmax=3
 wmm_ac_vo_txop_limit=47
 wmm_ac_vo_acm=0
 ieee80211n=1
 ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][TX-STBC][RX-STBC1][DSSS_CCK-40]
 eapol_key_index_workaround=0
 eap_server=0
 own_ip_addr=127.0.0.1
 wpa=1
 wpa_psk_file=/etc/hostapd/wpa_psk
 wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
 rsn_pairwise=CCMP GCMP


>  What is the actual error message that causes hostapd to exit?

No eeror at all. Even systemd say that hostapd is up and running, while
it is simply 'dead'.

I've not 'straced' it, indeed...