Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello Boris, I checked the handbook, UPDATING, and nothing mentioned this thing, why? I would think I'm not the only one with this problem, or am I? Anyway it seems to work, I'm getting: Starting hostapd. Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf wlan0: IEEE 802.11

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-27 Thread Derek Kulinski
Hello Sam, Sunday, December 27, 2009, 12:05:34 PM, you wrote: I didn't see anything in the thread to point a finger at freebsd but given the debug msg log shows ath0 instead of wlan0 I'm guessing whatever version was being used was pre-8.x. I think I was the only one in thread who used

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-27 Thread Sam Leffler
Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello Sam, Sunday, December 27, 2009, 12:05:34 PM, you wrote: I didn't see anything in the thread to point a finger at freebsd but given the debug msg log shows ath0 instead of wlan0 I'm guessing whatever version was being used was pre-8.x. I think I was the only one

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-27 Thread Derek Kulinski
Hello Sam, Sunday, December 27, 2009, 4:55:12 PM, you wrote: I think I was the only one in thread who used FreeBSD as an AP, also that was before 7.x when I made the log. So I'm not saying it's FreeBSD specific problem, I don't even think it's a BSD problem, but perhaps some kind of

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-16 Thread Boris Kochergin
Multi-BSS support in 8.0 means that you first need to create a wlan pseudo-device, and run hostapd with that. The rc.conf lines look like this: wlans_ath0=wlan0 create_args_wlan0=wlanmode hostap ifconfig_wlan0=ssid networkname media autoselect up -Boris Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello, I just

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-16 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 16.12.2009 um 12:19 schrieb Derek Kulinski: Hello, I just upgraded my access point (from 7.1 to 8.0) and can't make hostapd work (looks like wide-dhcp relay also has a problem with ath0): Things got a bit more complicated (and more powerful) with 8.0: you now have to configure a

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-16 Thread Marten Vijn
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 03:19 -0800, Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello, I just upgraded my access point (from 7.1 to 8.0) and can't make hostapd work (looks like wide-dhcp relay also has a problem with ath0): The ifconfig usage changed in 8.0 The Handbook is not correct:

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-16 Thread Derek Kulinski
Hello Boris, I checked the handbook, UPDATING, and nothing mentioned this thing, why? I would think I'm not the only one with this problem, or am I? Anyway it seems to work, I'm getting: Starting hostapd. Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Fetching hardware channel/rate

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-16 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 01:39:25 pm Derek Kulinski wrote: Also how to create wlan device by hand? ifconfig ath0 wlandev wlan0 doesn't seem to work. You have it backwards. It should be: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ___

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-16 Thread Boris Kochergin
Derek Kulinski wrote: Hello Boris, I checked the handbook, UPDATING, and nothing mentioned this thing, why? I would think I'm not the only one with this problem, or am I? Well, I learned about it because I follow the -current@ and -net@ mailing lists, but there is at least some mention of

Re: Problems with Atheros card and hostpd

2009-12-16 Thread Derek Kulinski
Hello Boris, Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 5:18:57 PM, you wrote: 20080420: The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss operation on devices that are capable. The underlying device is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are