Hostapd on a Raspberry Pi 3 with external WiFi card

I am trying to set an AP on a Raspberry Pi 3 using an external USB WiFi card and hostapd and dsnmasq. I have managed to achieve it using the internal WiFi card but when I try to switch to my external one I got the following error: $ sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf nl80211: Could not configure driver mode nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan1 disabled_11b_rates=0 nl80211 driver initialization failed. wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED wlan1: AP-DISABLED hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan1 wasn't started I believe it is because by default the hostapd is using nl80211 driver. This is the output of lsusb - Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:3072 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT3072 Wireless Adapter. And this is the output of lshw *-network:1 description: Wireless interface physical id: 3 bus info: usb@1:1.4 logical name: wlan1 serial: 98:3f:9f:24:a2:00 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=4.14.71-v7+ firmware=0.36 ip=10.100.100.254 link=no m ulticast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 So apparently this card is using the rt2080usb driver but when I try to put it inside the hostapd.conf and start manually the hostapd I got the following error: $ sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Line 3: invalid/unknown driver 'rt2080usb' 1 errors found in configuration file '/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' Failed to set up interface with /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to initialize interface And this is my hostapd.conf file: interface=wlan1 ssid=WiPi driver=rt2080usb hw_mode=g ieee80211n=1 wmm_enabled=1 channel=4 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=3 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wpa=3 wpa_passphrase=wifipasswordhere wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP rsn_pairwise=CCMP ht_capab=[HT20][SHORT-GI-20] [EDIT] This is the output of the iwconfig command: wlan1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry short long limit:2 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=31 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:on And this is the output of the iw list command: valid interface combinations: * #{ AP, mesh point } ENABLED wlan1: AP-ENABLED And this is the output of iwconfig: wlan1 IEEE 802.11 Mode:Master Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry short long limit:2 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off And this is the hostapd log when I try to connect to my essid WiPi and run speedtest: $ Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Using interface wlan1 with hwaddr 98:3f:9f:24:a2:00 and ssid "WiPi" wlan1: interface state UNINITIALIZED->ENABLED wlan1: AP-ENABLED wlan1: STA 94:65:2d:d4:e0:5b IEEE 802.11: authenticated wlan1: STA 94:65:2d:d4:e0:5b IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1) wlan1: AP-STA-CONNECTED 94:65:2d:d4:e0:5b wlan1: STA 94:65:2d:d4:e0:5b RADIUS: starting accounting session 5BEC735C-00000000 wlan1: STA 94:65:2d:d4:e0:5b WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN) wlan1: AP-STA-DISCONNECTED 94:65:2d:d4:e0:5b Failed to set beacon parameters wlan1: INTERFACE-DISABLED wlan1: INTERFACE-ENABLED Failed to set beacon parameters wlan1: INTERFACE-DISABLED wlan1: INTERFACE-ENABLED Failed to set beacon parameters handle_probe_req: send failed