On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 23:38 +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get hostapd up and running on my Soekris net4521 board, > until now without much success. One of the problems might be that I > am completely at a loss which version of hostapd is supposed to work > together with which driver. > > Any help about which combinations of hostapd and device driver have at > least a chance of working together would be more than welcome. Both git trees (wireless-dev and hostapd) work fine together :) > *** LinkSys WRT54GL (broadcom 4318) *** > > I tried the following drivers: > > 1) CONFIG_B43 in current wireless-dev That's the one you want. > 2) CONFIG_BCM43XX in current wireless-dev > 3) CONFIG_BCM43XX in 2.6.23-rc3 > 4) CONFIG_BCM43XX in 2.6.22.5 No chance of getting these working. > I can succesfully use wpa_supplicant with this card, e.g. with driver > 1) above, but there are some error messages. On the console: > > ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported > WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported > WEXT auth param 5 value 0x1 - Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 > Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. > All rights reserved. > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ That's expected, ignore it. > pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1 > PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64 > b43-phy7: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found > wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple' > ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:05:00.0 > b43-phy7 ERROR: bbatt(11) >= size of LO array Also known and can be ignored. > *** Netgear WG511 (prism54) *** > > I tried the following drivers: > > 5) CONFIG_P54_PCI in the latest wireless-dev I don't think that supports AP mode. > 6) PRISM54 in the lates wireless-dev > 7) PRISM54 in 2.6.23-rc3 > 8) PRISM54 in 2.6.22.5 Nor do those, HOSTAP driver is the one you'd want here, along with the hostap hostapd driver. > Example: combination 1c (CONFIG_B43 in wireless-dev, current > http://w1.fi/hostap.git) gives > > root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 mode master > root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 essid "SR20" > root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 channel 6 > root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 rate 11M > root@funk [~] ifconfig wlan1 up Don't do any of that, hostapd configures everything. > root@funk [~] ifconfig wlan1 192.168.2.1 Do that after starting hostapd while the interface was down. > root@funk [~] hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf > Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf > Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 15 > BSS count 1, BSSID mask ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (0 bits) > Hardware does not support configured mode > wlan1: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured mode (2) > Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-1) > rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory You need to start hostapd while the interface is down ("ip link set wlan1 down"). johannes
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