Hi,
I have a Aries 3054 miniPCI b/g (from netgate.com) based on the Atheros
chipset. I have put it in a Soekris Net 4521, which must serve a an
'access point' for two laptops, both carrying a Linksys WPC11 (b). The
quotes mean that ad-hoc mode is ok, but I have just read that madwifi
does not yet support ad-hoc (is this still true?), so I guess I must
create a 'real' access point then.
So far I made it to here :
I downloaded pebble linux v37 from nycwireless to go on the Soekris. This
one has the right modules compiled in, so I just have to do ...
pebble:~# modprobe ath_pci
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22-pebble/net/ath_hal.o will tath_hal:
0.9.5.3
BETA (Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED])
aint the kernel: non-GPL license - Proprietary
wlan: 0.7.1.1 BETA (Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED])
ath_pci: 0.8.3.2 BETA (Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED])
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36M
bps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:02:6f:20:4b:88
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xa000, irq=10
... to give me my ath0, which I then set up as a 'master'...
pebble:~# iwconfig ath0 mode master essid jodebaer channel 10
... and force it into 802.11b mode to avoid problems ...
pebble:~# iwpriv ath0 mode 2
mapping sub-ioctl mode to cmd 0x8BE0-2
... and then I can configure it ...
pebble:~# iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:jodebaer
Mode:Master Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 00:02:6F:20:4B:88
Bit Rate:0kb/s Tx-Power:off Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pebble:~# ifconfig ath0
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:20:4B:88
inet addr:192.168.1.254 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:23 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:6
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Memory:c4883000-c4893000
BUT this is where I am blocked, since no matter what I try on my laptop
(Linksys WPC11), it does not see the Soekris. Here is what things look
like on my laptop, I just iwconfig-ed the mode and essid, expecting him
to hook up on the AP :
# iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:jodebaer Nickname:localhost.localdomain
Mode:Managed Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:-68 dBm Noise level:-122 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
...any ideas on how to proceed?
Do I need hostap to make this work or is that just for cards bases on the
prism chipset?
Do I need to select a channel on the 'client' or will the client circle
through channels until he finds an AP?
Do I actually have to select a specific channel on the AP?
Thanks for any help or pointers,
Jo
NEOlabs - http://www.neolabs.be - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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