Try mode change after setting interface down nl80211. Set up your pi a wifi access point that will route traffic to the ethernet port. Okay after the last three days of trying to get this to work i still have had no success or replies from adafruit staff. Setting up a raspberry pi as an access point in a standalone network nat the raspberry pi can be used as a wireless access point, running a standalone network. Interface mode change to 2 from 0 failed nl80211 driver initialization failed. Before proceeding, please ensure your raspberry pi is up to date and rebooted. If you have a related question, please click the ask a related question button in the top right corner. The most basic set of options for using hostapd with the nl80211 driver have already been provided as the hostapdminimal. That is all you need if you dont care about consistantly being on the same channel, dont needwant encryption, and dont need a flashy name. Once hostapd is working fine, its time to configure hostapd with more options.
Could not configure driver mode nl80211 driver initialization failed. Please use this configuration and see what happens. Hey dude, i followed your readme instructions however i ran into a problem when running the wifi. Raspberry pi 3 configuring it as wireless access point ap mode. Resolved enabling hostapd in imx6 using wl1271 chipset. Trying to read entropy from devrandom configuration file. Raspberry pi, wireless dongle, hostapd adafruit industries. Install software setting up a raspberry pi as a wifi. I originally learned to set up hostapd from instructions on pastebin written by user dryfire117, at the process is now much easier since the version that comes with raspbian stretch includes the nl80211 driver. Setting up a raspberry pi as a wireless access point.
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