Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
Also, it isn't clear to me how best to configure the ht_capab option in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf. For the moment, I've copied a sample line published in a post by another user of the same card: ht_capab=[HT40-][HT40+][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][TX-STBC][RX-STBC1][DSSS_CCK-40][LDPC] but naturally I would rather know what I ought to do in this regard.
I'm afraid I don't remember ever touching an option like that, when I was fiddling with hostapd. Mine apparently is using root@widow:~# grep capab /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf ht_capab=[HT20][SHORT-GI-40][DSSS_CCK-40] To me, it looks similar to an SSL allowed ciphers list, so I suggest listing only the entries you actually need/use. You can hopefully find that out by removing things and seeing what breaks, although ISTR I also resorted to reading the hostapd source for the poorly-documented sections. Wikipedia is probably also useful if those are standard codecs (which, presumably, they must be).