Hi, I am having issues with the wifi-ap snap. I am trying to install it in ubuntu core 18 running on an UP Squared Grove IoT Board.
I have successfully loaded the wifi-ap snap on a raspberry pi 4 and have it working with the internal wifi so I know the snap works and my configuration is good.
However, when I try to install and use a USB wifi on the UP2 board (or on the Raspberry pi 4) it will not bring up the AP. I get the following in syslog:
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: /snap/wifi-ap/355/bin/ap.sh: line 49: kill: (2258) - No such process
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: 2020/05/19 20:03:07 http: multiple response.WriteHeader calls
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: 4: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: link/ether d0:37:45:0b:40:c1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?).
May 19 20:03:07 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: Configuration file: /var/snap/wifi-ap/355/hostapd.conf
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: nl80211 driver initialization failed.
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: wlan0: AP-DISABLED
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
May 19 20:03:11 linux wifi-ap.management-service[867]: hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn’t started
I have searched on the message: “Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands” and got lots of posts about the nl80211 driver.
So, has anyone gotten this snap working with an external/usb wifi (I have tried several different brands of USB wifi devices)? If so, what brand and what modifications were needed?
Thanks in advance.