Re: Q: hostapd fails for AP with 2 SSID on Intel 7260

Is there a way for me or software to figure out whether or
not an adapter can support multiple AP SSID ? Or is the EBUSY
message a safe indocator that there is no bug or other problem,
but that it is a hardware limitation ?

Thanks
    Toerless

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 09:02:09PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 20:22 +0200, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > Would appreciate help troubleshooting unless this is a known issue.
> > 
> > Was using openwrt 18.06.2 on x86 fine with another USB miniPCIe wifi 2.4 Ghz
> > card set up simply as AP with two SSID. Got 7260 intel mini PCIe so i could
> > get 5Ghz/AC.
> > 
> > With just one SSID it works fine. When i add second SSID, hostapd bails
> > trying to create the interface wlan0-1 (device or resource busy).
> 
> Yeah, it doesn't support that.
> 
> > "iw list" claims interface supports 20 SSID. Which sounds to me as if it should work.
> 
> That's a different thing. There it's listing how many SSIDs you can have
> in a *scan* :)
> 
> johannes
> 

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