[Madwifi-users] Setting up a WAP with WPA
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From: Jason C. <ja...@ja...> - 2008-07-19 05:32:10
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I am not sure where to ask this so I will ask here and hopefully someone knows the answer. I am trying to set up a wireless access point with WPA encryption. I have my wireless setup with madwifi (v0.9.4) and wpa_supplicant 0.5.7 on Gentoo Linux without any security. I want to setup WPA and have been following this guide... http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wireless/Access_point#WPA_Encryption However I have ran into a problem with hostapd. When I start it up it says... * Starting hostapd ... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Using interface ath0 with hwaddr 00:19:5b:80:f2:d8 and ssid 'CarsonNet' Flushing old station entries ioctl[unknown???]: Invalid argument Could not connect to kernel driver. Deauthenticate all stations rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory [ !! ] It doesn't start and shows the following error message... ioctl[unknown???]: Invalid argument Could not connect to kernel driver. ...Does anybody know how to fix this? |