Hi all,
I'm trying to add a wireless card to an Untangle 8 (firewall) box. I
want to turn this box into a Wireless Access Point. This is not
supported in the Untangle distro but hey I want to try it.
This is a WN5301a wireless b/g PCI adapter. It uses the Atheros AR2416
chipset.
With a standard build, Untangle finds the wireless card and sets it up
as wlan0 and wmaster0 in the Untangle interface along with eth0 and eth1.
However a windows box does not see the wireless network. It's like it is
not broadcasting itself.
Lots of Googling says I should load hostapd.
I've tried to install hostapd following the directions from
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd
but am getting errors during the make like the following...
warning: net/if_media.h: No such file or directory
(a few of these... as well as many of these...
/src/drivers/driver_bsd.c:102: error: dereferencing pointer to
incomplete type
and other errors... this, I believe, is to do with missing FreeBSD 80211
layer drivers (Atheros drivers)
So...
I'm not a debian expert as I mainly use RedHat distro's... any
cluesticks or better ways to get Debian Lenny into being a WAP?
or how do I get the current drivers into Debian?
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Thanks,
Ben Donohue
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