Package: hostapd Version: 1:1.0-3+b1 Followup-For: Bug #679770 Dear Maintainer,
I am also having problems with very similar results. I am also using a Sparklan WPEA-127N mini PCIe Wifi card. Had my configuration running as a daemon, wifi bridged over ethernet etc. 802.11n was enabled with the ht_capab option enabled but had to upgrade in an effort to gain a higher 11n thoughrput performance. STEPS TAKEN: 1) did a apt-get dist-upgrad from Squeeze to Wheezy. 2) downloaded the backports-3.10.4-1.tar.gz from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.10.4/backports-3.10.4-1.tar.gz 3) did a "make" defconfig ath9k, then make install 3) rebooted machine, ensured that the ath9k drivers are indeed loaded, and functioning fine as a client using wpa_supplicant, authenticated, and connected fine to an already established WPA2-PSK AP nearby. 4) Proceeded to load my old hostapd.conf and settings. upton running the "#/etc/init.d/hostapd start" I get the following error. [....] Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapdrmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory failed! so running the actual daemon "# hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf" random: Trying to read entropy from /dev/random Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf ctrl_interface_group=0 Line 374: unknown configuration item 'ieee80211n' Line 409: unknown configuration item 'ht_capab' 2 errors found in configuration file '/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' Commenting out these two options (IE: disabling 802.11n) the daemon is then able to be started both by invoking the init.d script and the actual binary. I performed an "apt-get source hostapd" to confirm that the 802.11n options had indeed been enabled already under the wpa-1.0/debian/config/hostapd/linux config file. I even scrapped my hostapd.conf file and imported the provided example file found under /usr/share/doc/hostapd/examples/hostapd.conf and configred accordingly with identical results. I have a Sparklan WPEA-110N also which I will now go ahead and also test, along with a number of Intel Advance-N 6xxx series cards. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages hostapd depends on: ii initscripts 2.88dsf-41 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.7-4 ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.7-4 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-2 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1 hostapd recommends no packages. hostapd suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/hostapd changed: DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf" /etc/init.d/hostapd changed: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON_SBIN=/usr/sbin/hostapd DAEMON_DEFS=/etc/default/hostapd DAEMON_CONF=/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf NAME=hostapd DESC="advanced IEEE 802.11 management" PIDFILE=/var/run/hostapd.pid [ -x "$DAEMON_SBIN" ] || exit 0 [ -s "$DAEMON_DEFS" ] && . /etc/default/hostapd [ -n "$DAEMON_CONF" ] || exit 0 DAEMON_OPTS="-B -P $PIDFILE $DAEMON_OPTS $DAEMON_CONF" .. /lib/lsb/init-functions case "$1" in start) log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --quiet --exec "$DAEMON_SBIN" \ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" -- $DAEMON_OPTS >/dev/null log_end_msg "$?" ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet --exec "$DAEMON_SBIN" \ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" log_end_msg "$?" ;; reload) log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --exec "$DAEMON_SBIN" \ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" log_end_msg "$?" ;; restart|force-reload) $0 stop sleep 8 $0 start ;; status) status_of_proc "$DAEMON_SBIN" "$NAME" exit $? ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload|reload|status}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org