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Hey all, |
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I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently many |
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distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the |
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nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I tried |
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editing the defconfig file in hostapd.tar.gz (enabling |
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CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y)but when I opened the tarball, edited it, and |
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created a new tarball then tried to emerge it it gave me this... |
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penguin distfiles # emerge hostapd |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>>> Verifying ebuild manifests |
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>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/hostapd-0.6.9 |
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Refetching... File renamed to |
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'/usr/portage/distfiles/hostapd-0.6.9.tar.gz._checksum_failure_.70f9W1' |
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...and then wanted to download hostapd again. |
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Anyone know how I edit the source of the hostapd tarball so it will work? |
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> Greetings, |
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> I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel |
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> driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using |
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> Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in |
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> "master mode" but for some reason it is starting up in "managed mode". |
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> When wlan0 starts up I get this error message... |
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> * Bringing up interface wlan0 |
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> * configuring wireless network for wlan0 |
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> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : |
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> SET failed on device wlan0 ; invalid argument. |
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> * wlan0 connected to SSID "MyNetwork" |
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> * in managed mode (WEP Disabled) |
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> * null... [ ok ] |
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> then when hostapd starts up I get this error message... |
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> * Starting hostapd... |
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> Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf |
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> Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode. |
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> nl80211 driver initialization failed. |
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> ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x80f5a38 user_data=(nil) |
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> handler=0x8094b70 |
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> * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd' |
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> [ !! ] |
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> * ERROR: hostapd failed to start |
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> Here is my /etc/conf.d/net |
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> config_eth0="69.196.152.151 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast |
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> 69.196.152.255" |
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> config_eth1="null" |
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> config_wlan0="null" |
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> bridge_br0="eth1 wlan0" |
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> config_br0="192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" |
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> channel_wlan0="1" |
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> mode_wlan0="master" |
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> essid_wlan0="MyNetwork" |
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> Here is my hostapd.conf |
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> interface=wlan0 |
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> bridge=br0 |
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> driver=nl80211 |
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> ssid=MyNetwork |
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> hw_mode=g |
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> channel=1 |
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> macaddr_acl=0 |
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> auth_algs=1 |
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> ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 |
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> country_code=CA |
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> wpa=1 |
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> wpa_passphrase=passphrase |
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> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK |
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> wpa_pairwise=TKIP |
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> rsn_pairwise=CCMP |
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> Anyone know how to change my wireless card to "master mode" and make it so |
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> I don't get those error messages? |
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> Thanks |
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> P.S. I have everything working with madwifi and an older kernel so worst |
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> case scenario I stay with that configuration until I get this problem |
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> figured out. |
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