From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MEsWY-0006Fj-2n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:13:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCC0EE030B; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E92E030B for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so7336406gxk.10 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:13:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rZ/dbOR/r1Dfn76gkBgmj/+nUpekHBh5RkS8Gh3I+eo=; b=VeOMQof+JxNf1bH8atiSMBTxwX1xIAOtVk4IR6d8fJbx5s+YLER3mBT13wHFsHmGwY fFen5KcgJ6XGEYj3eOB2/YQskxJhE9e4JMkVeKw/PeGSWTlUYasxouKK5sb/XRBArFLc LvLnXQIFSDldXytW9KnXK+UDeM6+o24Cwu11w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MBI47MaT4XlhPpMRamHpuxPnhFyHfW+t2DcEQ9prWvaqYxtLUKqi7LQYAgA/QdwmJY yu4BRvpupNXT24STwcnCV4ptkOUJycjFSca8DmkvMESL2VNw6wT7m4GimWWPe9CnZOrk LyN9SgbgIIQ9856kaafAqKVIM/B85QhHVc0iA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.81.11 with SMTP id e11mr2509064agb.119.1244758406907; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:13:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A3011EA.9000908@smash-net.org> References: <000606ca6620ef53cdcd6e935ccf6c4b.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2E3C57.2060402@smash-net.org> <8d3434f676e4ca6527fde5e0c086be25.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2EFFEE.6070803@smash-net.org> <22e332067298a86dc79f6def4e071ee3.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2F8CEF.6070600@smash-net.org> <4A3011EA.9000908@smash-net.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:13:26 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10906111513x4f177e37g6570a512256bee0a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 219eda38-5e0c-49a7-83a0-bc6d3b5221e1 X-Archives-Hash: 3dcb82c240c59913024ae3359ee51cd3 >>>> Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) >>>> >>>> ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer >>>> booted >>>> up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am >>>> having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get whe= n >>>> I >>>> tried to start up hostapd... >>>> >>>> penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start >>>> * Bringing up interface wlan0 >>>> * =A0 Configuring wireless network for wlan0 >>>> * =A0 Scanning for access points >>>> * =A0 =A0 no access points found >>>> * =A0 Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 >>>> * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start >>>> * ERROR: cannot start hostapd as net.wlan0 would not start >>>> >>>> It's suppose to be an access point, not scanning for one so do you hav= e >>>> any idea what I should do now? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Did you remove wlan0 from the /etc/conf.d/hostapd file? >>> >>> >>> >> >> No, should I just leave it empty? >> INTERFACES=3D"" >> >> What about /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf? >> Do I leave it like this... >> interface=3Dwlan0 >> ...or remove that line too? >> >> > > INTERFACES should at least contain the bridge device. The wired NIC does = not > hurt either. > In /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf wlan0 is needed to tell hostapd which device= it > has to initialize, so leave it like this. I've almost got this working, but I don't know what to include in the /etc/conf.d/hostapd INTERFACES variable since I don't have a br0 device or configuration. Do I need one? If I leave INTERFACES empty and I don't start net.wlan0, I don't have a way to define the IP address for the AP, and shorewall's "loc" zone is empty because net.wlan0 hasn't started. - Grant