Hello,
I use a Atheros Mini-PCI Card, which I brought up with the following command
(via the Book of pf):
sudo ifconfig ath0 up mediaopt hostap mode 11b chan 11 nwid pla nwkey pladoh
sudo ifconfig ath0 10.50.90.1
I then can't find the AP, even when standing a few centimeters away.
(Not when using OpenBSD, and not when using Backtrack w/ Kismet)
That's the first issue (not working is bad..) but when I then
change the ath0 setup anyhow with ifconfig,
like ifconfig ath0 down or change the IP, the whole box hangs:
- doesn't answer to pings
- stops forwarding packets
- is not reachable anymore on all interfaces
here's the ifconfig output:
ath0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:1d:0f:af:98:88
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11b hostap
status: active
ieee80211: nwid con chan 11 bssid 00:1d:0f:af:98:88 nwkey stoke
none
inet6 fe80::21d:fff:feaf:9888%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 10.50.90.1 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
and here an excerpt from dmesg:
ath0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Atheros AR2413" rev 0x01: irq 9
ath0: AR2413 7.8 phy 4.5 rf 5.6, FCC2A*, address 00:1d:0f:af:98:88
Platform is an Alix2c3, which works very well except from this issue.
Any ideas?
Should I provide some additional logs/infos?
