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Topic: Wistron CM9 Atheros hostapd problems...

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I have a Windstron CM9 wifi card using the madwifi drivers, hostapd loaded and webif.

My problem is with hostapd loaded I get the following message...

Updating your configuration...

Committing wireless ...
Waiting for the commit to finish...
Reloading wireless ...
sysctl: short write
Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-ath0.conf
Line 4: unknown hw_mode '11bg'
1 errors found in configuration file '/var/run/hostapd-ath0.conf'
enable_atheros(wifi0): Failed to set up hostapd for interface ath0

and my wifi doesn't work.  If I unload the hostapd module, my wifi works, but I need the hostapd module.
I tried removing the offending line from the config file, but same problem occurs, no wifi.

anyone have any ideas on this?

Thanks in advance.

Line 4: unknown hw_mode '11bg'

hostapd dosn't accept '11bg' only 'bg'

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