On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:53:42 -0500
vr debian-u...@iotk.net wrote:
I'm playing with a laptop that has an Atheros AR2413 based (badged as
Dynex DG-WGNBC) pcmcia card and a wired NIC using Debian Unstable,
current as of a few hours ago. I'd like to make an access point.
lspci | grep -i atheros
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413
802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
This page says the wireless card should be using the ath5k driver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_wireless_drivers
and also says master mode is supported in that driver.
I've confirmed ath5k is loading with lsmod | grep -i ath
ath5k 104074 0
mac80211 123574 1 ath5k
ath 6014 1 ath5k
cfg80211 87661 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
led_class 1757 1 ath5k
I've defined wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces as:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
wileless-channel 7
wireless-essid wifitest
wireless-key1 s:86753
wireless-mode master
but at ifup wlan0 this error occurs:
Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : Set failed on device
wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
How can I make that card the master it needs to be?
Using hostapd (I think):
http://blog.dmaggot.org/2010/05/setting-up-an-atheros-based-ap-using-ath5k-and-hostapd/
http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/
Celejar
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