Search Linux Wireless

Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



2008/4/30 Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>  OK, I got it all working with:
>
>  - wireless-testing kernel,
>  - libnl 1.1,
>  - git master branch of hostapd.
>
>  But I cannot do WPA, only "clear text".
>
>  The thing is, my wlan interface is part of a bridge, and the bridge is
>  set up as:
>
>  brctl addif br0 eth0
>  brctl addif br0 wlan0
>
>  where wlan0 is the b43. I know nada about WPA, but can this have an
>  influence? The MAC address of the bridge is the one of the Ethernet
>  card, not the wireless one, and I specified wlan0 in hostapd.conf as
>  the interface to grab...
>

It looks like the bridge makes hostapd (well, WPA at least) unhappy.

If the b43 is not in a bridge, WPA works... Is that a hostapd problem only?

-- 
Francis Galiegue, fgaliegue@xxxxxxxxx
"It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence'
tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have
nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The
Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux