[nycwireless] Free Wi-Fi @ Ace Bar, Sushi restaurant

[Anthony Townsend]

NYCwireless' philosophy of free wireless networks is really catching on 
this winter in the East Village.

in the past two days, I've spotted two new locations that are offering 
free Wi-Fi. a new sushi restaurant that opened at 2nd ave & 2nd street, 
and the Ace Bar on 5th St btwn A/B ("now open from 10am featuring free 
wireless Internet")

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[nycwireless] Atheros - Soekris - Linksys

[jo]

Hi,

I have a Aries 3054 miniPCI b/g (from netgate.com). I have put it in a
Soekris Net 4521 running pebble linux v37, which has the madwifi driver
built-in. 

So far I made it to here :  

pebble:~# iwconfig ath0 mode master essid "jodebaer" channel 10

pebble:~# iwpriv ath0 mode 2   // to force it to 11b


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


... the Soekris has to serve as an access point for 2 WPC11-carded laptops.

Now if I configure the WPC11 on a 'client' like below, shouldn't it see
the AP? Can anyone confirm that my atheros is correctly configured?
Because the laptops see nothing.

laptop:~# 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


Thanks for any pointers ;-) ideally setting up a quick ad-hoc would be an 
easy way to test connectivity, but I guess this is not yet possible with
madwifi? 
 
Jo 

 




 

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