From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MELBY-0004gs-W9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:37:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78CF3E04AB; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from india533.server4you.de (india533.server4you.de [85.25.151.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA0BE04AB for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.17] (pD95FFC12.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.252.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by india533.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896757705B9 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:37:34 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A2F8CEF.6070600@smash-net.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:37:35 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090430) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup References: <000606ca6620ef53cdcd6e935ccf6c4b.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2E3C57.2060402@smash-net.org> <8d3434f676e4ca6527fde5e0c086be25.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2EFFEE.6070803@smash-net.org> <22e332067298a86dc79f6def4e071ee3.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> In-Reply-To: <22e332067298a86dc79f6def4e071ee3.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 652f4f14-2c66-48d5-8c24-71315ad379b0 X-Archives-Hash: e860167a935e119f23ce3fae879b12a5 Jason Carson schrieb: > Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) > > ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted > up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am > having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I > tried to start up hostapd... > > penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start > * Bringing up interface wlan0 > * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 > * Scanning for access points > * no access points found > * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 > * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start > * ERROR: cannot start hostapd as net.wlan0 would not start > > It's suppose to be an access point, not scanning for one so do you have > any idea what I should do now? > > > Did you remove wlan0 from the /etc/conf.d/hostapd file?