I have Wisp-Dist running on a Soekris net4521 with Teletronics 200mW
pcmcia radio cards. I am trying to get it to work in Master/AP mode. I
plan to use two cards and bridge them (if possible), but for now I would
just like to get a link to my laptop using one installed card.
I had Wisp-Dist working in Managed mode previously with an Orinoco Gold
card talking to my Linksys AP (which is now off). But now in Master mode
with a Teletronics card I cannot access the router via my laptop (with
the Orinoco Gold now in the laptop's pcmcia slot).
Here is my iwconfig dump (with Encryption key *** out):
netcs0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"Curmudgeon_A" Nickname:"wisprouter"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437GHz Access
Point:00:02:6F:05:58:FE
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-** Encryption mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:4 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:324 Invalid misc:93 Missed beacon:0
Here is my /etc/network/if.config
BR_IFACES=""
ENABLE_PARP_BRIDGING="no"
netcs1_IPADDR="192.168.3.254/24"
NAT_IFACE=""
IFACES="eth0 netcs0 "
eth0_IPADDR="192.168.1.5/24"
netcs0_RATE=""
DEFAULT_GW="192.168.1.1 dev eth0"
netcs0_IPADDR="192.168.2.254/24"
Here is my /etc/network/wireless.config
netcs0_MODE="MASTER"
netcs0_ESSID="Curmudgeon_A"
netcs0_CHANNEL="6"
netcs0_NICK="wisprouter"
netcs0_RATE="11M auto"
netcs0_RTS=""
netcs0_TXPOWER="100mW"
netcs0_ENCMODE="RESTRICTED"
netcs0_KEY="**********"
Here is my routing:
# ip route show
192.168.2.0/24 dev netcs0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.254
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.5
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
OSPF is enabled.
When trying to access the AP from Windows XP on my laptop, I get offers
from Curmudgeon_A. Without encryption enabled it kept offering, but
would not link. I would tell windows to not enable WEP, but it did not
help.
Finally, I added encryption and a key to both and now I show a strong
link on windows (confirmed by Orinoco Windows Client Manager), but no
connection (cannot ping). IPTABLES defaults to ACCEPT on
INPUT/OUTPUT/FORWARD.
When I access Wavemon from the statistics menu it shows no signal, i.e.,
link quality = 0, signal and noise are both showing: -256dbm.
When I pull up AP Statistics I get indication of a link with my Orinoco
card in the laptop. See below:
netcs0: Access Point statistics
Press CTRL-C to exit
Name/MAC Signal/Noise TX/RX rate KB sent KB rcd
00:02:2D:66:73:EF 70/36 110/20 0 0
The logfile: /var/log/messages seems to indicate a successful link with
the MAC address of my Orinoco-equipped laptop.
I am using a fixed address on my laptop, but have tried enabling and
disabling dhcpd.
I am obviously missing something here, but cannot put my finger on it.
Dan
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