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 1MEtqf-00085t-HG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:38:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4455E02D0; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:38:19 +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 BC8C2E02D0 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so7531796gxk.10 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:38:19 -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=VhvO652xCQnHV+fms0jCHhxzmYzOIj79xQgukLmNp+4=; b=wJ/2ybmIjaymkMT/hknlg0A6rSXnHeognKTOodWeFv0yrWAPNn+HY1xPurrpUz7F5e vvvhATQOzQltOJJ+dDA4JcERJwTm1RPRSB2jS2jmNzs0zlkdxF1u/B4SV9FOjVD3oR8I +nhynSf0GgW/je0agQPFJ+BquluFJL3v9aawU= 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=CMEN89k+zRq4WpiHy1F0HL5Qoz8Z2SDkV624YEH1lv14lD+sDgezIiQlDxFZMP0RWj VJIPLwKgKBl7zNaK12erLZOcAeEasB9r3zrc0SVINrdPvfUvVIyR4FtS9ayQ3IE6FMaH pgPbT1k8O6UZoH2/V+Jo2mEErd9vtRSEZJLTs= 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 10.90.71.15 with SMTP id t15mr2571581aga.111.1244763499474; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:38:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A319419.4000502@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> <49bf44f10906111513x4f177e37g6570a512256bee0a@mail.gmail.com> <4A319419.4000502@smash-net.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:38:19 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10906111638y3725fe35s146a4c2f25ea3db7@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: aef4b855-daf2-4686-b3e8-6915b9d5868b X-Archives-Hash: 5676719989725d02689cba7a5f3737a3 >>>>>> 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 a= m >>>>>> having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get >>>>>> when >>>>>> 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 >>>>>> have >>>>>> 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 doe= s >>> not >>> hurt either. >>> In /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf wlan0 is needed to tell hostapd which devi= ce >>> 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. =A0Do I need one? =A0If I leave INTERFACES empt= y >> 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 >> >> > > What do you want to do with your accesspoint. You will need a bridge to a > wired network if you want your ap attached to that wired network. This is > quite usual though... > Without a bridge to a wired network, only the wlan systems are connected = and > can not connect to your wired systems. That's no problem, I'm OK with keeping eth1 and wlan0 separate. Right now I just want to get wlan0 working. Do you know how to do that? I can't start net.wlan0 because it chokes on master mode, so I don't know how to specify an IP for the AP or how to fill shorewall's "loc" zone as that is normally filled by net.wlan0. - Grant