On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:04:17 +0000 Alexey Yudichev <ayudichev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. This link is broken however simple search brings me here: > http://wireless.erley.org/ > where the author says that Atheros AR5213A does not work: "Lets me set > master mode, and activate hostapd, but not found on other machines > while scanning". Well what I tried is I left the kernel on 2.6.27-13, > compiled latest compat-wireless, upgraded to hostapd 0.6.8 and I got > hostapd starting successfully. I configured it for open system and got > my Windows Mobile 5 PDA connecting to it successfully and even > interenet was working! WM6 Smartphone connects from 2nd or 3rd attempt > but has no access to internet for some reason. With WPA2-PSK WM6 > connects but still no internet and WM5 does not connect even though > the config is pretty standard: > wpa=3 > wpa_passphrase=abcdefgh > wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP > > Does this resemble your wpa configuration? I didn't try WPA yet but I will shortly. > Do you know, if I got this far, can unstable connection and not > working WPA be related to older kernel? I can't be sure. I don't have the unstable connection problem but I didn't use WPA yet. So maybe the unstable connection problem only happens with WPA. > What clients did you try? I can't understand why internet access works > on WM5 but not on WM6. Both devices worked great with hardware > wireless router. The client was Linux 2.6.29-rc6 with a USB WiFi key with the rtl8187L chipset. -- Christoph .J Thompson <cjsthompson@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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
