Hi Joe,
If everything works as designed you can load the firmware by putting
it in the /etc/firmware/hostap directory and load it by setting
something like this in the /etc/network/interfaces file (as described
in the hostapu help file :-):
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
hostname foo
fw_primary /etc/firmware/hostap/pm010102.hex
fw_secondary /etc/firmware/hostap/rf010800.hex
You only need hostapu.lrp, that one contains the necessary if-pre-up
script and some hostap utilities. The hostapd.lrp package can be used
for extended 802.11 management (http://hostap.epitest.fi/)
AFAIK you need the wireless.lrp package (and libm.lrp dependency) to
set up the wlan interface, wireutil.lrp is not necessary.
Regards,
Eric Spakman
>
> Hi, all.
>
> I've recently got BuC-2.2 running on a new system for testing - great setup,
> everyone; nice work - and I'm now trying to get it to "play nice" with my Prism2
> DWL-520E wireless PCI card. To do so, I've I've actually had success getting the
> card up and running by using the following procedure:
>
> 1. load hostap, hostap_crypt_wep, hostap_pci (in that order)...this should bring up
> both a wifi0 and wlan0 device
>
> 2. load PRI and STA firmware onto the card, using prism2_srec. For some reason, the
> "hostap-utils" script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d isn't doing this all by itself,
> which I thought it would. Anyway, firmware loads well manually.
>
> 3. start (or restart) the hostapd daemon (hostap -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf).
>
> At this point, if I ifdown/ifup the wlan0 interface, I get an additional "wlan0ap"
> device when I run "ip addr show", which seems like a good thing. In addition, a
> test laptop client running Windows2000 can see the signal when looking at the right
> channel, with the right ESSID, etc. The only problem so far is that I can't seem to
> get an actual connection, so I'm still working on that.
>
> My questions are the following:
>
> 1. I'm currently loading hostapd.lrp and hostapu.lrp. It doesn't look like I need
> hostapu, since that only does PCMCIA stuff. Do I also need libm, wireless, and
> wireutil? I loaded those at one point, and they seemed to screw stuff up. Sorry
> for the vagueness.
>
> 2. How can I make sure that "hostap-utils" is running to inject firmware onto the
> Prism card? I guess I'm asking, "when does the if-pre-up.d directory get parsed and
> run?
>
>
> Thanks for all your help so far with my LEAF projects. I've been running another
> BuC-2.0-rc1 router (no wireless) for ages, and it's flawless. Thanks especially to
> Eric Spakman for his help with some prickly wireless problems in the past.
>
>
> -joe.
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