Hej Martin, Hej all Martin Hejl schrieb: > B wrote: >> I cannot interpret all of this output, but one can see a lot of receive >> errors due to bad CRC. > Sorry, I can't help with that, other than pointing to the obvious - how > far away from the AP is your laptop? Any concrete walls, ceilings or > something like that? Is the pigtail for the antenna properly connected? > It's easy to not properly connect those darn little things. > Channel 1 should usually not be a problem regarding other WIFI networks > - since at least in my neighborhood, everybody seems to be using channel > 6 (probably the default on commercial APs). > >> So my idea is to switch to different channels, but whatever I write in >> /etc/network/interfaces that is like >> >> wireless-channel 11 >> >> with different channelnumbers or simply left, I always get the same >> result, the AP working on channel 1: > Odd. Are you using WPA? If so, you might want to try adding > > channel_policy=2 > channel=11 > > in your hostapd.conf (then restart hostapd, and then "ifdown ath0" and > "ifup ath0"). Maybe that will solve the issue. > >> PS: Im using a wlm54g23 in an alixbox (www.pcengines.ch/wlm54g23.htm). >> It should support 13 channels in Europe. > Is it set to the country code of Germany (I assume Germany due to your > email address)? 276 would be the one, I think. > But it wouldn't matter for setting channel 11 - that should work no > matter what country code is configured. >
I was able to get more information concerning this topic from the hostapd-list. There are actually two things to know: 1. channel_policy is not a valid configuration option for the open source hostapd. 2. Please also note that madwifi does not actually use the channel configuration from hostapd (unlike some other drivers). In other words, if you want to change the channel, you will need to do this with iwconfig. After all, I 'found' the wireless.lrp which contains iwconfig. Having this installed, the wireless-channel statement was set after reboot and I now have channel 8 active. Rereading the howto showed me, that I messed installing this package allthough it was written to be done - my fault. Thanks again. Boris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
