I tried to blacklist the rtl8192eu driver as well, thinking that it was possible that Raspbian comes with some janky driver for rtl8192eu that prevented hostapd accessing the actual driver I want to use. Again, the wifi dongle works fine when NOT in AP mode. Needless to say, the hostapd that comes with Raspbian doesn't work either. But since I know it does work for AP mode (since it worked fine on my laptop), the problem is with the driver, or hostapd. The first line, nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands indicates that the chipset driver doesn't work with hostapd. Hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started

Wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED

Nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0 Nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands On the Raspberry pi, however, it just doesn't work! I was finally able to compile hostapd on the Pi using this guide, but it just throws these errors: sudo. The annoying thing is that on the laptop, with the lower version hostapd, I'm able to use the wifi dongle to create an AP. Works perfectly in station mode for the both of them.

Laptop kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u3įor both the laptop and Pi, I used this to install the chipset driver. Raspberry Pi 2 (target is using Zero, but testing on RPi2)

Raspberry pi 8192cu driver