[Madwifi-users] Confusion about setting up madwifi-ng as access point
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[Madwifi-users] Confusion about setting up madwifi-ng as access point
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From: David W. <dav...@bf...> - 2006-06-13 20:52:19
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I am trying to configure my AR5212 (in a Thinkpad X31) as an access point, but after reading the docs and following directions, my clients still can not see the network in scans, nor can they associate with my access point. Any suggestions? Am I missing something basic? I am not trying to do encryption (yet), so I don't think I need hostap. I also don't care about bridging (yet). I'm just trying to create an access point as an interface on this FC5 laptop, run DHCP on that interface, and use the laptop like a router. Here is what I read: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/AccessPointInterface http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/autocreate http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/SimpleAccessPoint http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/HostAP I have madwifi v1604 and kernel 2.6.16. My module options read thusly: options ath_pci rfkill=0 autocreate=none # lspci | grep -i ath 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) # lsmod | grep ath ath_pci 83496 0 dm_multipath 18121 0 ath_rate_sample 10752 1 ath_pci wlan 165980 6 wlan_scan_ap,ath_pci,wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample ath_hal 188880 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample dm_mod 50521 7 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror Here is how I created and configured the access point: # wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap ath0 # iwconfig ath0 essid davwav # iwconfig ath0 channel 11 # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. irda0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. wifi0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"davwav" Nickname:"5nave" Mode:Master Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:05:4E:46:E9:3E Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:1822 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 # ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:4E:46:E9:3E inet addr:192.168.124.1 Bcast:192.168.124.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::205:4eff:fe46:e93e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:7229 (7.0 KiB) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:60:80:FC:B0 inet addr:192.168.5.158 Bcast:192.168.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:60ff:fe80:fcb0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:98420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:100461 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:25961066 (24.7 MiB) TX bytes:25467255 (24.2 MiB) Base address:0x8000 Memory:c0220000-c0240000 irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr db:d9:93:5a UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:23751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:8 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:356265 (347.9 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:180718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:180718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:28600341 (27.2 MiB) TX bytes:28600341 (27.2 MiB) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-05-4E-46-E9-3E-38-42-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2330 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2926 TX packets:471 errors:11 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:116168 (113.4 KiB) TX bytes:55649 (54.3 KiB) Interrupt:11 Memory:f8b00000-f8b10000 # |