[rt2x00-users] Question about starting up an AP

[Helmut Schaa]

Am Montag 27 September 2010 schrieb Joshua Smith:
> Sometimes my Linksys/Cisco WMP600N adapter will not initialize in AP mode. 
> Prior to going into AP mode, I do 'iw wlan0 scan' and get a bunch of info,
> so the hardware is working up to that point.  When I try to start hostapd,
> I get this error in dmesg:
> 
> phy0 -> rt2800_wait_wpdma_ready: Error - WPDMA TX/RX busy, aborting.
> phy0 -> rt2800pci_set_device_state: Error - Device failed to enter state 4 (-5).

Since you've scanned already before, I guess some DMA registers aren't reset
correctly when taking the interface down.

> (note that I also get this message:
> phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from hardware
> but I get that when everything works, as well.)

Yeah, that shouldn't be related.

Helmut