From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 3 20:29:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9106DBB4 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qe0-x22d.google.com (mail-qe0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CCB71075 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f45.google.com with SMTP id 6so16179031qea.32 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:29:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=l1LDPxm/KC4qh7d9WgBPGk9/OkFK+5/XjLZfz5j6xV8=; b=iL9KhBCmtMFy8G3LuLyM9n+zshEnjSFvAiW2KG5Xv3HKATh5CPElo75N0uLEayXu0v QL0mM1jPV5yE0W6RIucFeZTH7thvy2VC8BN6FkhOzU3ExppOaOAx/x0ZZCnfZ2Rib/Og kbAQthkVkfACqPSyIz6l/hbu0rlDRUefG17pxpqn3WfDoSUZgh1TG9b4uF3FuIv/v7bl KDUOCSkirGmjNcVMa5TT02Ep5RKKrY21X7TEQaTWWS+NSxLf8eOtB66/fhZju1AAdLfY q5gf/wxgBQ94VIlq63OzGUlTmEtbjW6D5Sv1ODzwYLIiKfDBRu7Jt6tOLZ0sqzl5imIQ GCJg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.229.56.200 with SMTP id z8mr149807096qcg.1.1388780954407; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:29:14 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.52.8 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:29:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52C71A1B.5070707@rawbw.com> References: <52C6A33C.4030300@rawbw.com> <52C70D01.1070906@rawbw.com> <52C718B3.2030302@rawbw.com> <52C71A1B.5070707@rawbw.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:29:14 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: l144vxDEp5Pkrouwjnpop3zhSto Message-ID: Subject: Re: hostapd prints errors like this: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0, arg_len=7]: No such file or directory From: Adrian Chadd To: Yuri Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:29:15 -0000 Try ifconfig ath0 ether .. why link? -a On 3 January 2014 12:14, Yuri wrote: > On 01/03/2014 12:10, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> Yeah, you should only change the MAC when you bring up the AP, not >> during its operation. > > > I was changing MAC before I was bringing it up: > ifconfig ath0 link $NEW_MAC > ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode hostap > ... > > Yuri