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I recently purchased a TL-WN725N v2 usb dongle so that it may be used for my Ubuntu virtual machine. My Ubuntu installation seemed to install the correct drivers when plugging in the usb dongle (rtl8188eu). I set up a pretty simple hostapd.conf file and when I try to start hostapd, I get this error:
Configuration file: hostapd.conf
nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started
My lshw looks like this:
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:1
logical name: wlan0
serial: c4:6e:1f:12:41:ac
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8188eu ip=10.131.5.248 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
and iwconfig looks like this:
wlan0 unassociated Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.427 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
My problem seems similar to this post: TL-WN725N Access-Point on ArchLinux + Hostapd
Although I'm not really sure what the OP (@ochurlaud) did to get their adapter working on Raspberry PI.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Intrepid
Posted 2015-03-24T15:02:27.973
Reputation: 21
See my answer on the post you mentioned, I hope it'll help.
– Unda – 2015-07-11T02:43:32.100