On Saturday 10 January 2009, you wrote: > W. van den Akker wrote: > > Did some futher testing to exclude problems.... > > The wlan0 and eth1 are both part of a bridge. I have removed the eth1 > > interface so the the eth1-driver cannot interfer with the ath9k driver. > > Also no result. The server still locks. > > > > What is the right way to combine the eth1 and wlan0 into a bridge. Do I > > even need a bridge? The hostapd.config says I must define a bridge when > > I use the nl80211driver interface. > > The bridge has an IP adress, wlan0 and eth1 are in the same subnet. > > > > When hostapd is started I have some error-messages. Dont know if they can > > hurt... > > Failed to set CTS protect in kernel driver > > Failed to set Short Slot Time option in kernel driver > > Could not set preamble for kernel driver > > I use gentoo's init scripts, but my wlan0 and eth0 are both in a bridge > (br0) and it works fine. I don't get the CTS, Short Slot Time, or > preamble kernel driver errors. Perhaps you need to comment out a few > lines in hostapd.conf? > > # preamble=1 > > and I have: > > rts_threshold=2347 > > I'll send you a direct e-mail with my .config and hostapd-wep.conf files > to help with debugging. I have used your config files for hostapd. Only change I have made is comment out the CONFIG_LIBNL20 because I have no lib for the debian lenny distro. But I dont think that will hurt much. The error messages are gone. However the system hangup still occurs. It looks like a DMA - ath9k related problem. greetings WIllem -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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