Nick Kossifidis wrote:
The only reason we haven't enabled AP support yet is that it didn't work on some devices and we need to make more tests to be sure that it's ok.
I found a blog entry from Jiri saying he had it working on the AR5212, but I'm unable to reproduce his luck. I only added the patch to enable AP mode, assuming the rest are already in the wireless-testing tree. My NIC: 16:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01) As long as I leave channel=0, I don't see any obvious errors when I start hostapd, but I don't see any APs show up on a friend's Vista system (or my G1). If I try to set a channel (channel=1, for instance), then it fails to set the channel and aborts. I haven't used hostapd before, so I could be messing that up somehow. I'm trying the latest git snapshot as of today, and the libnl-1.1 Here is my hostapd startup, in case it helps: [root@ibmt60w-1 hostapd]# ./hostapd -d hostapd_ath5k.conf Configuration file: hostapd_ath5k.conf ctrl_interface_group=0 Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 10596688 BSS count 1, BSSID mask ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (0 bits) SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf wlan1: IEEE 802.11 Fetching hardware channel/rate support not supported. Flushing old station entries Deauthenticate all stations Using interface wlan1 with hwaddr 00:0b:6b:20:88:75 and ssid 'ben-ath5k' wlan1: Setup of interface done. MGMT (TX callback) ACK MGMT (TX callback) ACK mgmt::proberesp cb MGMT (TX callback) ACK mgmt::proberesp cb I see these in the kernel logs, as well: Feb 11 17:55:23 ibmt60w-1 kernel: ath5k phy1: beacon queue 7 didn't stop? Feb 11 17:56:27 ibmt60w-1 kernel:last message repeated 74 times [root@ibmt60w-1 ~]# Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- 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
