On 4/21/10 8:48 PM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> On 04/19/2010 01:27 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
>> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:06 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
>>>> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:20 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I did a clean install of 0.7.1 on a net4801 (1G CF card). All seems fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have an Atheros CM9 miniPCI card installed in the soekris, and am
>>>>>> tring to configure it to work. In the rc.conf I removed the '#' signs
>>>>>> from:
>>>>>> WIFI_ENABLE="yes"
>>>>>> WIFIMODS="ath5k"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> also,
>>>>>> BRIDGE0="eth1 ap0"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> AP0="[as is in the rc.conf, with change from br1 to br0]"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> saved and rebooted, on the console as astlinux is rebooting I get the
>>>>>> message "WiFi not enabled"... this is confirmed with "lsmod". I can
>>>>>> modprobe ath5k and the CM9 is detected. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
>>>>>> in advance for any guidance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John R.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Did you edit /mnt/kd/rc.conf and the directory /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/ does
>>>>> not exist ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or, are you using the web interface?
>>>>>
>>>>> Lonnie
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I did edit rc.conf... and I am using the web interface for most other
>>>> items. I didn't see where to do edits for WiFi in the web interface.
>>>> (the rc.conf edit was done via the "edit" tab of the web interface,
>>>> and not via nano directly... I doubt that matters).
>>>>
>>>> John R.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Using the web interface, you should use:
>>>
>>> Network tab -> Advanced Configuration: User System Variables: {Edit User
>>> Variables}
>>>
>>> Then add your variable definitions as above. Then reboot.
>>>
>>> The files used in the case is "/mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/user.conf"
>>>
>>> Lonnie
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the help thus far. I've finally made the corrections you
>> pointed out, and the box comes up with the module loaded, and seems to
>> be right... but I'm not able to make a connection to the box
>> wirelessly.
>>
>> AP0="wlan0:sunflower:11:br0:wpa2:password:hidden,rekey"
>>
>> above is what I have in user.conf. I understand that this means that
>> the SSID is "sunflower", operating on channel 11, bridge 0 (which in
>> this situation is "eth1 ap0"), wpa2 is the security type/protocol,
>> "password" is the password, and "hidden" means to hide the SSID...
>> don't know about "rekey".
>>
>>
> Rekey means to force periodic rekeying of all stations, so that they are
> less susceptible to a brute-force decryption attack.
>
>
>
>> Can someone confirm the above, and provide the appropreate option
>> alternatives (or where/how to find them)?
>>
>>
> Start by turning off "hidden" and see if the network is visible.
>
> Also, try "wpa" instead of "wpa2". There's a lot of equipment out there
> that still doesn't implement WPA2 correctly (even though WPA was found
> to be "weak" over 5 years ago).
>
> Worst case, try "wep" and see if that works. If it does, revert back to
> wpa or wpa and go from there.
>
>
>
>> I have looked at the "iw" command, and read online some usage
>> examples, but none seemed to yield anything useful.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> John R
>>
>>
> Last case, kill off hostapd manually, and try running it by hand:
>
> hostapd -dddd -K -t /tmp/etc/hostapd.conf
>
> and look through that.
>
Hadn't heard back, so everything must be working now...
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