On 04/19/2010 01:27 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:06 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
>>> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:20 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I did a clean install of 0.7.1 on a net4801 (1G CF card). All seems fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an Atheros CM9 miniPCI card installed in the soekris, and am
>>>>> tring to configure it to work. In the rc.conf I removed the '#' signs
>>>>> from:
>>>>> WIFI_ENABLE="yes"
>>>>> WIFIMODS="ath5k"
>>>>>
>>>>> also,
>>>>> BRIDGE0="eth1 ap0"
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>> AP0="[as is in the rc.conf, with change from br1 to br0]"
>>>>>
>>>>> saved and rebooted, on the console as astlinux is rebooting I get the
>>>>> message "WiFi not enabled"... this is confirmed with "lsmod". I can
>>>>> modprobe ath5k and the CM9 is detected. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
>>>>> in advance for any guidance.
>>>>>
>>>>> John R.
>>>>>
>>>> Did you edit /mnt/kd/rc.conf and the directory /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/ does not
>>>> exist ?
>>>>
>>>> Or, are you using the web interface?
>>>>
>>>> Lonnie
>>>>
>>> I did edit rc.conf... and I am using the web interface for most other
>>> items. I didn't see where to do edits for WiFi in the web interface.
>>> (the rc.conf edit was done via the "edit" tab of the web interface,
>>> and not via nano directly... I doubt that matters).
>>>
>>> John R.
>>>
>> Using the web interface, you should use:
>>
>> Network tab -> Advanced Configuration: User System Variables: {Edit User
>> Variables}
>>
>> Then add your variable definitions as above. Then reboot.
>>
>> The files used in the case is "/mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/user.conf"
>>
>> Lonnie
>>
> Thanks for the help thus far. I've finally made the corrections you
> pointed out, and the box comes up with the module loaded, and seems to
> be right... but I'm not able to make a connection to the box
> wirelessly.
>
> AP0="wlan0:sunflower:11:br0:wpa2:password:hidden,rekey"
>
> above is what I have in user.conf. I understand that this means that
> the SSID is "sunflower", operating on channel 11, bridge 0 (which in
> this situation is "eth1 ap0"), wpa2 is the security type/protocol,
> "password" is the password, and "hidden" means to hide the SSID...
> don't know about "rekey".
>
Rekey means to force periodic rekeying of all stations, so that they are
less susceptible to a brute-force decryption attack.
> Can someone confirm the above, and provide the appropreate option
> alternatives (or where/how to find them)?
>
Start by turning off "hidden" and see if the network is visible.
Also, try "wpa" instead of "wpa2". There's a lot of equipment out there
that still doesn't implement WPA2 correctly (even though WPA was found
to be "weak" over 5 years ago).
Worst case, try "wep" and see if that works. If it does, revert back to
wpa or wpa and go from there.
> I have looked at the "iw" command, and read online some usage
> examples, but none seemed to yield anything useful.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> John R
>
Last case, kill off hostapd manually, and try running it by hand:
hostapd -dddd -K -t /tmp/etc/hostapd.conf
and look through that.
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