On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 08:09:29AM +0000, man Chan wrote: > Hello, > I tried to setup my Linksys WLAN (Ralink RT2560) as access point with > > mediaopt hostap > nwid mynwid wpakey mywpakey > inet 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 > > When I ifconfig ral0, I got status: no network. Did I missing something to > make it work or this card cannot config as hostap ? any idea ? > > Thanks. > > Clarence > > >
Try setting the channel explicitly: mediaopt hostap mode 11g chan 1 nwid mynwid wpakey mywpakey inet 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 This avoids an automatic search for a channel to use. The interface will not come up before a channel is set.
