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Re: Using a Debian box as an AP with wireless testing and hostapd

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On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:00 +0200, Javier Gálvez Guerrero wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use my Debian box as an AP using the latest wireless
> testing kernel (2.6.30-wl) and a WiFi card Asus WL-138G v2 PCI but I'm
> experiencing a weird problem, hope you can guide me through it.
> 
> First, I'll tell what and how I setup it. I downloaded the wireless
> testing kernel and installed it (make && make modules && make
> modules_install && make install), prepared the boot images and updated
> the grub; fine. Next I installed compat-wireless, wireless regdb,
> crda, libnl, hostapd and iw following this tutorial
> (http://acx100.erley.org/git.html), with slight modifications: install
> some missing packages (m2crypto, libgcrypt-dev and libssl-dev) and,
> after installing compat-wireless, 'make unload' as suggested by the
> 'make install' output.

You don't need compat-wireless with 2.6.30-wl.  The whole point of
compat-wireless is to backport the latest drivers from the "-wl" kernel
to older kernels.

Please remove /lib/modules/2.6.30-wl and reinstall the kernel by running
"make modules_install install".

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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