Re: [Madwifi-users] Setting up a WAP with WPA
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From: Jason C. <ja...@ja...> - 2008-07-19 07:50:37
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I upgraded to 0.5.10 and the problems seems to be gone. > 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? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Madwifi-users mailing list > Mad...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/madwifi-users > |