[Voyage-linux] FYI Voyage-current, hostapd and mac80211/ath5k

[Dean Franks]

Just wanted to report that the 2.6.32 kernel, mac80211 drivers and hostapd
are all rock solid when using the ath5k driver in wpa ap mode.  It is
significantly more stable than the backported madwifi with 2.6.30 which
still has occasional hiccups and incompatibilities with some wpa clients.

>From a stock install, this script:
rmmod ath_pci
rmmod ath_rate_minstrel
rmmod ath_hal
modprobe ath5k
iw dev wlan0 del
iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type __ap   ## two underscores
hostapd -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

This is a basic working hostapd.conf:

interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=WIRELESSTEST
channel=1
wpa=1
wpa_passphrase=yourwirelesspassword
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcase_ssid=0
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0

Note that this config is for WPA / TKIP only, and TKIP is not very secure.
 We have devices that do not support WPA2 so I have not tested that but
would expect it to work ( change to wpa=3, wpa_pairwise=TKIP,AES).

Thanks,
Dean
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