Hostapd could not set channel for kernel driver

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 · I don't have experience with hostapd, but your message tells you "Could not set channel for kernel driver" which you set to 1. Is this the channel your wlan operates on? you can find out the channel with iwlist scan Also i'm not shure about the driver you set. Your lspci shows iwlwifi, but like i said i'm not shure. hostapd: Failed to set channel (freq=): 16 (Device or resource busy) Ask Question Asked 3 years (freq=): 16 (Device or resource busy) Could not set channel for kernel driver wlan0: Unable to setup interface. Flushing old station entries Could not connect to kernel driver. Deauthenticate all stations nl Remove interface. The next commands uses ifconfig to bring up wlan and allows a second's delay, then restart the dhcp server (though I did not need this restart in my setup), and finally start the hostapd service. It should now start w/o any issues.

#change wlan0 to your wireless device interface=wlan0 driver=nl ssid=test channel=1. If that config errors out with something like: hostapd $ sudo hostapd./www.doorway.ru Configuration file./www.doorway.ru Line 2: invalid/unknown driver 'nl' 1 errors found in configuration file './www.doorway.ru'. Following guides found online, I have had it working with hostapd as an access point once. But after reboot that stopped working. In the process of trying to getting that to work again, I removed the "wpasupplicant" package. Now I can't seem to get hostapd to work at all. Flushing old station entries Could not connect to kernel driver. Deauthenticate all stations nl Remove interface ifindex=7 netlink: Operstate: linkmode=0, operstate=6 nl Set mode ifindex 3 iftype 2 (STATION) The only real error I can spot is this: nl Failed to set channel (freq=): 16 (Device or resource busy).

Hostapd (Host access point daemon) is a user space software access If you are unable to connect to the AP and wpa_supplicant returns to. 5 Agu Hi I have a question. I have Debian Buster with hostapd from packages. I would like to run AP with 80 devices connected to it without. 8 Jun I originally learned to set up hostapd from instructions on Pastebin hostname ssid=wifipi # Pick a channel not already in use channel=6.