Hello,

> Hi Eric,
>
>
> I am sorry for the delay. Since Sunday, I runs hostapd.lrp you sent me
> with madwifi and it is great, no problem so far. I just do not know why I
> do not see messages dumped to the dumpfile as I specified in the config
> file (see below), only to daemon.log, but other than that it is OK.
>
It's not dumping because I disabled that functionality in the source to
safe a lot of space. Do you need that debug facility?

> I am busy with other work so I cannot test the current hostapd package in
>  the latest 2.3 ISO CD, but like you said, it should work too. Can
> anybody from the list confirm that?
>
> Just want to thank you again for all your help.
>
No problem.

>
> ------------
>
>
> What I am using now are:
>
>
> - madwifi modules from 2.3 ISO, i.e. old codebase from madwifi

Did you also try the new codebase?

> - hostapd you sent me (0.4.5-2)
> - wireless 28pre10 which I compiled myself. The one in ISO is 28pre8
>
>
> There is no need to include hostapd.o module in /etc/modules like you
> said. I run hostapd as 'hostapd -B -dd /etc/hostapd/madwifi.conf', and the
> config file looks like the following
>
> ####   START of /etc/hostapd/madwifi.conf
> #
> interface=ath0 driver=madwifi
>
> logger_syslog=-1 logger_syslog_level=2 logger_stdout=-1
> logger_stdout_level=2
>
> # Debugging: 0 = no, 1 = minimal, 2 = verbose, 3 = msg dumps, 4 =
> excessive debug=3 # Dump file for state information (on SIGUSR1)
> dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
>
> # SSID to be used in IEEE 802.11 management frames
> ssid=myssid
>
> # Station MAC address -based authentication
> # 1 = deny unless in accept list
> macaddr_acl=1 # this file contains all MACs of the machines you allow, one
> per one line accept_mac_file=/etc/hostapd/hostapd.accept
>
> eapol_key_index_workaround=0 eap_server=0
>
> # WPA pre-shared keys for WPA-PSK. This can be either entered as a
> 256-bit
> wpa=1
> wpa_psk=0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP wpa_group_rekey=600 #
> ####   END of /etc/hostapd/madwifi.conf
>
>
Thanks for the report!

Eric



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