Re: [Madwifi-users] Cannot make my Atheros based card to work as access point

[Vladimir R <vl...@ma...>]

Thanks to Pavel Roskin for quick replay. 
He wrote:
>This should work with the current MadWifi snapshot from subversion.
>And by the way, the final BackTrack 3 release provides a much newer 
>revision 3726 with HAL 0.10.5.6.  It may work better.
>Make sure you set the channel when configuring the AP.

OK, I downloaded final BackTrack 3 release and tried to make AP mode working.
But now I cannot see my AP at all! There is no signal.
So in ad-hoc mode. No errors in logs.
Monitor and station modes works OK.   
wlan: svn r3726
ath_pci: svn r3726
ath_hal: 0.10.5.6 
wifi0: ath_announce: Driver has Karma 1.1 patches by Robin Wood <dn...@gm...>
wifi0: ath_announce: Driver has managed mode injection patches by Jeff <dev...@gm...>
wifi0: ath_announce: Driver mods are maintained by H D Moore <hd...@me...>
The wifi0 interface has input and output, but ath0 seems to be down.
bt ~ # ifconfig wifi0
wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1C-10-E7-57-E5-58-90-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:45901 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:11722
          TX packets:3248 errors:1427 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
          RX bytes:4835499 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:651410 (636.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:21

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 06:1C:10:E7:57:E5
          inet addr:192.168.123.1  Bcast:192.168.123.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
bt ~ # iwconfig ath0
ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"mytestap"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 06:1C:10:E7:57:E5
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-96 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:4359  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0