[Voyage-linux] can´t get Atheros AR9280 (ath9k) in AP mode

[Pablo Escobar]

Hi,

I am trying to get a working AP in my alix board with a Mikrotik r52n-m
minipci card (atheros ar9280 chipset using ath9k driver) using voyage 0.7

I have tried to follow this guide without success:
http://www.punknix.com/dnma92-ath9k-and-hostapd-with-voyage-linux

Also tried to do small modifications to the the hostapd.conf file in that
guide and also tried this reduced config but couldn´t get it working

interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=yourssidhere
hw_mode=g
ieee80211n=1

This is my /etc/default/hostapd  file:

DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
DAEMON_OPTS="-dd"

And in my /etc/network/interfaces I have this:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
       address 10.5.30.1
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       broadcast 10.5.30.255
        up nat.sh wlan0 eth0 "10.5.30.0/24"

also tried to add the line "hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf" in the wlan0
section in /etc/network/interfaces file after reading this post (without
success)
http://marc.info/?l=voyage-linux&m=129999678907115&w=2

My wireless card never gets the ssid. This is the output that I get from
"iwconfig" command


wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  Mode:Master  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Tx-Power=20 dBm

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on

mon.wlan0  IEEE 802.11abgn  Mode:Monitor  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Tx-Power=20
dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off


¿anyone could post a working hostapd.conf file? ¿maybe is a problem with my
wireless card? ¿or with country code? ¿maybe I need to install any extra
package? I am quite lost right now as I don´t know of any other place or
config file to look at. I purchased this minipci card to switch to wifiN but
it seems I will have to keep using my older wifiG atheros cards which worked
great.

many thanks for any help.
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