Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi access point with iwl3945
Mike Mazur schrieb: Hi, I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has an iwl3945 card. I followed the Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros specific. Part of the setup uses hostapd[2]. Looking at this, it's not immediately clear that iwlwifi is supported. Does anyone know whether it's possible to use hostapd with iwlwifi drivers? Is there an alternative access point software I can use? Thanks, Mike [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Atheros_Ath5k_Wireless_Access_Point [2] http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/ Sorry, your hardware doesn't support working as an access point. Except of buying new hardware, I think your only chance is to run in ad-hoc mode. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi access point with iwl3945
Hi, On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:08, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Mike Mazur schrieb: I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has an iwl3945 card. I followed the Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros specific. [...] Does anyone know whether it's possible to use hostapd with iwlwifi drivers? Is there an alternative access point software I can use? Sorry, your hardware doesn't support working as an access point. Thanks for clarifying. No wonder I couldn't find any tutorials specific to the iwlwifi driver. Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi access point with iwl3945
On 7 Nov 2009, at 05:21, Mike Mazur wrote: ... I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has an iwl3945 card. I followed the Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros specific. Gentoo-wiki is a mess. :( If only the people who wrote their separate articles about building APs with madwifi [1] and ath5k [2] had thought to improve and contribute to the pre-existing wireless access point article: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless/Access_point That explains very clearly (as has Florian) that the hardware needs to support master mode and also why. The explanation of setting up the iptables / bridging / dhcpd / c should not need to be repeated on multiple pages. I started that page originally, but this was perhaps as much as 5 years ago. At that time it documented how to produce a basic installation with simple explanations in order to make it easy for someone who was even just a little command-line literate. It has actually changed remarkably little in some respects, but I doubt it is any longer consistent or fully accurate. It actually claims that the ipw3945 does do master mode - I assume this is a different driver for your card? - but Googling leaves me dubious; I see the claim repeated other places without the poster actually appearing to succeed. Stroller. [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Madwifi_Wireless_Access_Point [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Atheros_Ath5k_Wireless_Access_Point
