Re: Still unable to configure MadWifi as an AP
Aditya Bhave <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:25:42 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user |
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If you see the lines next to ath0 in my output, it says mode: Master. Im
using a Lenovo Thinkpad as an AP. It has an in-built Intel-based WiFi
card which is showing up as wlan0 in the output of iwconfig. It doesnt
show in the output of ifconfig since I disabled it using "ifconfig wlan0
down."
So I dont think theres a problem in my setting up the interface. Im
reposting the output of ifconfig, iwconfig and route -n for STA and AP
again below.
Many thanks for your help
/*****************************************************************/
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
On 06/02/2010 05:53 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 19:07 -0400, Aditya Bhave wrote:
>
>
>> Im still unable to configure MadWifi as an AP. As suggested. I have
>> included the outputs of iwconfig.
>>
> ...
>
>> At the AP
>>
> ...
>
>> 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
>>
> The only way to use master (AP) mode is to create an interface in master
> mode. This could be done with wlanconfig, but the easiest way would be
> to use the autocreate parameter for the ath_pci module:
>
> rmmod ath_pci
> modprobe ath_pci autocreate=master
>
> This is described in the README file in the MadWifi sources.
>
>
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