Solved Hostapd with Atheros AR9287 won't start

[mxc]

Hi all,

I am attempting to turn my freebsd FreeBSD box into an APN with hostapd(4). I have the following Atheros wifi card:

"AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)"

I have the following in /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.10.8 netmask 255.255.255.0"
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
hostapd_enable="YES"

In /etc/hostapd.conf I have

interface=wlan0
driver=bsd
debug=4
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=0
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=2
dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
hw_mode=g
ssid=Dogs
wpa=3
wpa_passphrase=PASSWORD
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=CCMP TKIP

When starting up hostapd(8) I get the following output:

Starting hostapd.
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
bsd_set_if_media: SIOCSIFMEDIA Device not configured
bsd_init: failed to set operation mode
bsd driver initialization failed.
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x801c08a80 user_data=0x0 handler=0x4146a0
/etc/rc.d/hostapd: WARNING: failed to start hostapd

It seems hostapd(8) take the card down and then can't bring it up again. If I do a ifconfig wlan0 up and then a ifconfig wlan0 scan I get some nearby SSIDs. So I know the card is working at least. Any help appreciated. I have put the debug level to 4 but there is no additional output in /var/log/messages.

 

[junovitch@]

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

You most likely want to review that and make sure your card supports AP mode with ifconfig wlan0 list caps. If it does, you'll need to set that when the wlan(4) interfaces gets created with this:
/etc/rc.conf

create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"

 

[mxc]

Thanks for the reply. That did the trick. Thanks for the formatting. Wasn't sure if I should use <code> tags for config file but now I know