Hi kp, I'm glad that I was able to help you find the problem.
I learned a little about hostapd, which was useful to me. dMb On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 07:09 +0200, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2010, 22:10:57 schrieb davidMbrooke: > > Hi kp, > > > > Good news - hostapd works for me! > > (Well, good news for me anyway :-} ) > > > > On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 19:57 +0100, davidMbrooke wrote: > > > > Would you mind to give hostapd a test? I'm starting to get the > > > > impresson it's a PEBKAC rather than a ath5k/hostapd pb. > > > > > > I will certainly try hostapd; not something I have ever tried before. I > > > will try now and hopefully report my findings in 1 - 2 hours. > > > > I'm using .11g and I tried it with no encryption (works fine) and again > > with WPA2 (works fine). As you can see from the log the client > > Associates OK and then gets an IP address. From your earlier mails I > > understand this procedure was failing for you. > > Thx dMb; > > finally it was me :) > > Your success encouraged me to search the pb elsewhere, but not in the > driver/hostapd any longer. > > And a few minutes later it was done: > > After the new kernel and gcc enabled the ath5k driver, I missed to change > dnsmasq's listen interface from old ath to new wlan interface. > ( I changed it previously at the time the driver did not completly start > while > testing, but didn't save the config due to the massive changes and choosed > the > safe way to just reboot to an working config - over time I forgot that step). > > thx for your help. > > kp > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > leaf-devel mailing list > leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
