How Fix Hostapd Invalid/Unknown Driver 'Nl80211' Error?
I Have Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 I Installed Hostapd from Ubuntu Software Center When I Run This Command Hostapd Hostapd-Minimal. Conf I Get This...
- I have Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000
- I installed hostapd from Ubuntu Software Center
When I run this command
hostapd hostapd-minimal.confI get this:root@tarek-PC:~# hostapd hostapd-minimal.conf Configuration file: hostapd-minimal.conf Line 2: invalid/unknown driver 'nl80211 ' Line 4: unknown hw_mode 'g ' 2 errors found in configuration file 'hostapd-minimal.conf'
After doing make first I had this error:
driver_nl80211.c:25:26: warning: netlink/attr.h: No such file or directory
I solved it by installing libnl-1.0pre8
Now I have this error when doing make command:
../src/crypto/crypto_openssl.c:10:30: fatal error: openssl/opensslv.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [../src/crypto/crypto_openssl.o] Error 1
Can anyone help me with that error I am running Ubuntu 13.04?
4 Answers
You need to build, or obtain, a different copy of hostapd. The one you have has been built with the option CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211 set to N, rather than Y.
There are simple and detailed instructions how to rebuild it here → Hostapd building instruction. Rebuild it with the option enabled. You may have to google for hostapd.2.0.tar.gz, but do exactly as it mentioned in link.
As for the follow-up question/error try to install this library libssl-dev using this command:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
You see the spaces after the values? Remove them.
Line 2:
invalid/unknown driver 'nl80211 'Line 4:
unknown hw_mode 'g '
Check for EOL format. It should be in UNIX format as < LF > and not < CR >< LF >. That fixed mine error.
I had a similar Problem, but without the spaces after the values and managed to solve it:
Before I encountered the Problem, I copied the hostapd.conf file from my Windows pc onto my Raspberry Pi. And I believe the problem was, that the text had special characters. Maybe some returns were different (Because I had a return instead of a space after the values in the errors)
But enough speculation, let's come to my solution:
- I renamed the old hostapd.conf file (to hostapdOld.conf)
- I created a new file with the name hostapd.conf
- And then I copied the whole content of the old file to the new one. (I just selected the whole text, didn't use Ctrl+A, if this even matters)
Then I ran hostapd as usual, with:
sudo hostapd -d /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
And it worked again
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