I'm not sure why I did not receive much response to my earlier post on adding wireless to my network. I suppose the question was too vague or, people are not using Bearing as a wireless AP rather purchasing a hardware AP. Anyhow, I was able to convert my Leaf Bearing box into a wireless AP running with WPA-PSK TKIP. Actually, it seems to be running WPA2-PSK AES/CCMP but I can't confirm that this works since my client does not support it.
Here is an overview of my steps: Purchase a wireless network card. I chose the D-Link DWL-G510 based on the Atheros chip. Determining which card to buy was the most difficult part of the whole installation. Follow instructions here http://mango.baronnet.net/ap.html (thank you Lionel) to install wireless.lrp and madwifi.lrp. I did find one issue. The latest madwifi drivers changed the way you assign Master mode. In /etc/interfaces, I replace the line wireless-mode Master with two lines, pre-up wlanconfig ath0 destroy and pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap. I also made slight changes to the way I configured Shorewall. At this point I was able to connect to my BeringAP using basic WEP security. I also was able to establish a VPN / PPTP connection. As a side note, windows network browsing seems to work correctly in this configuration. Next, I wanted to improve my wireless security. So, I installed hostapd.lrp. I also needed to install libm, libcrpto, and libssl. I enabled the daemon and used http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/HostAP to configure the options. I change two lines ssid and wpa_passphrase. I generated a 256-bit key here: http://www.andrewscompanies.com/tools/wep.asp Well, now everything seems to be running properly. I learned a lot about wireless in the last few days. I want to thank everyone on the Bering-uCliibc team especially Eric Spakman for madwif.lrp and hostapd.lrp. Rich ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
