Re: Aspire One as access point

Sune Mølgaard schrieb:
> Peter Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Thanks for the hint. I read this documentation already but the most of
>> it is out of date regarding Ubuntu. I could not find any documentation
>> for Ubuntu 9.10 using the preinstalled driver. The command wlanconfig is
>> not available at all.
>> I could also not find any up to date documentation how to deactivate the
>> preinstalled driver in order to use the compiled one.
>> Do you know of any documentation regarding Ubuntu 9.10 to create an
>> access point?
>>
>> Thanks for help.
>
> I believe that the standard driver for ubuntu is the ath5k driver,
> which is different from the madwifi driver in many respects, first and
> foremost, as to your inquiry, in that it is not configurable via
> wlanconfig.
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1) if you only need for your netbook to provide access for short
> periods of time, use Ubuntu's Network Manager applet to "Create new
> Wireless Network", effectively establishing an ad-hoc network with
> your One acting as gateway to the internet.
>
> 2) if it is intended as a long-term solution, use hostapd to create a
> wpa or wpa2 wireless access point on your One (there are docs for that
> elsewhere), noting that ath5k devices cannot be put into master mode
> by iwconfig, but will let hostapd do it for you. You need to specify
> the driver "nl80211" in the hostapd.conf file.
>
> I hope this helps, otherwise reply with the problems ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sune
Hi Sune

Thanks for your help. Yes, I need an AP as the iPhone and Android do not
support ad-hoc mode.
I specified the mentioned driver in hostapd.conf and started the daemon
with the following command:

<code>
$ sudo hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
ctrl_interface_group=0
Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 4419572
BSS count 1, BSSID mask ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (0 bits)
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf
nl80211: Added 802.11b mode based on 802.11g information
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=13 freq=2472 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=13 freq=2472 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Hardware does not support configured mode
wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured mode (2)
Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-1)
wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
</code>

What may be my problem?

Thanks and best regards
Pete


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