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From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:37:37
Message-Id: 4A2F8CEF.6070600@smash-net.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup by Jason Carson
1 Jason Carson schrieb:
2 > Thanks for the clarification Norman :-)
3 >
4 > ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted
5 > up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am
6 > having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I
7 > tried to start up hostapd...
8 >
9 > penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start
10 > * Bringing up interface wlan0
11 > * Configuring wireless network for wlan0
12 > * Scanning for access points
13 > * no access points found
14 > * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0
15 > * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start
16 > * ERROR: cannot start hostapd as net.wlan0 would not start
17 >
18 > It's suppose to be an access point, not scanning for one so do you have
19 > any idea what I should do now?
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 Did you remove wlan0 from the /etc/conf.d/hostapd file?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup Jason Carson <jason@×××××××××××.ca>