Still unable to configure MadWifi as an AP

Aditya Bhave <[email protected]> Mon, 31 May 2010 19:07:39 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Im still unable to configure MadWifi as an AP. As suggested. I have 
included the outputs of iwconfig. ifconfig and route -n at both AP and 
STA below. Can someone please help me

Each of my laptops has an inbuilt non-Atheros WiFI card called wlan0 and 
an external PCMCIA-based Atheros card. To keep things simple, I disabled 
wlan0 using ifconfig wlan0 down on each laptop. Here are the relevant 
command outputs. Im using the latest stable release of MadWifi (0.9.4) 
with patches for the 2.6.32 kernel (Lucid Lynx)

/*****************************************************************/
At the AP

ayb@AdLenovoLinux:~$ ifconfig
ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 06:0b:6b:20:72:f6
           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::40b:6bff:fe20:72f6/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1721 (1.7 KB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:7e:11:b6:09
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
           Memory:fc000000-fc020000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:74065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:74065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:3008539 (3.0 MB)  TX bytes:3008539 (3.0 MB)

wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-0B-6B-20-72-F6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:6270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:57740
           TX packets:2042 errors:342 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
           RX bytes:897647 (897.6 KB)  TX bytes:181270 (181.2 KB)
       Interrupt:16

ayb@AdLenovoLinux:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  
ESSID:"f2\x0D\xB71X\xA3Z%]\x05\x17X\xE9^\xD4\xAB\xB2\xCD\xC6\x9B\xB4T\x11\x0E\x82tA!=\xDC\x87" 

           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.427 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
           Tx-Power=15 dBm
           Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Power Management:off

pan0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Aditya"
           Mode:Master  Frequency:2.447 GHz  Access Point: 
06:0B:6B:20:72:F6
           Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:902  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ayb@AdLenovoLinux:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 ath0

/****************************************************************************************************/
On the STA
ayb@ADSonyVAIO:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
           Tx-Power=15 dBm
           Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Power Management:off

pan0      no wireless extensions.

wifi0     no wireless extensions.

ath2      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Aditya"
           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.447 GHz  Access Point: 
06:0B:6B:20:72:F6
           Bit Rate:48 Mb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=36/70  Signal level=-58 dBm  Noise level=-94 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:658  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

ayb@ADSonyVAIO:~$ ifconfig
ath2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0b:6b:20:40:dd
           inet addr:192.168.1.15  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::20b:6bff:fe20:40dd/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:4966 (4.9 KB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:a9:48:e9:19
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:34584 (34.5 KB)  TX bytes:34584 (34.5 KB)

wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-0B-6B-20-40-DD-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:2392 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:147
           TX packets:406 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
           RX bytes:362890 (362.8 KB)  TX bytes:24726 (24.7 KB)
           Interrupt:16

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:de:62:bd:c5
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:15242 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:12162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:2790387 (2.7 MB)  TX bytes:1296883 (1.2 MB)

ayb@ADSonyVAIO:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0 ath2
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 ath2
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ath2

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks
regards,
Aditya Bhave


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