I seem to be missing something, possibly from reading too many HOWTOs. What I
am trying to do is get a system with a wireless card to stand in as a wireless
AP should my aging LinkSys base station develop a tragic smoke leak.
It's an ath0-based card and the following steps suggest it should work (it has
HOSTAP capabilities and offering robust encryption).
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
ifconfig wlan0 list caps
drivercaps=6f85ed41<STA,FF,IBSS,HOSTAP,AHDEMO,TXPMGT,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,MBSS,WPA1,WPA2,BURST,WME,WDS,BGSCAN,TXFRAG>
cryptocaps=f<WEP,TKIP,AES,AES_CCM>
But various permutations of rc.conf, hostap.conf and many iterations of
/etc/rc.c/netif restart leave me with two ifconfig entries, one of the ath0
interface and one for wlan0. None of the examples show this so I suspect it's
wrong. The IP address is pingable from the host it's installed in but not from
anywhere else. And I can see the AP from another system and attach to it but it
doesn't route any traffic.
from /etc/rc.conf:
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap"
ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.0.26 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid lower mode 11g
channel 8"
from hostap.conf:
interface=wlan0
debug=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ssid=lower
wpa=0
redacted results of ifconfig:
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 00:0d:88:93:21:3a
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
status: running
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:0d:88:93:21:3a
inet 192.168.0.26 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::20d:88ff:fe93:213a%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
status: running
ssid lower channel 8 (2447 MHz 11g) bssid 00:0d:88:93:21:3a
regdomain FCC indoor ecm authmode AUTO privacy OFF txpower 27
scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs
Yes, I am trying it without any encryption until I see some packets being
passed.
It seems like a lot of people are getting this to work but I'm not able to
follow how they did it.
--
Paul Beard
Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?
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