[Voyage-linux] ath5k

Artie Gold (spam-protected)
Tue Sep 27 03:15:17 HKT 2011


When you went to restart the network you used the wrong command. You wanted:

/etc/init.d/networking restart

That explains both the errors you saw and the fact that nothing had changed.

Cheers,
--ag

2011/9/26 Laili Aidi <aidi at kth.se>

>  Sorry, the essid is as below:
>  *root at voyage:~# **vi /etc/network/interfaces*
>   # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
>  # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
>  auto lo
>  iface lo inet loopback
>
>  auto eth0
>  iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>  # mac80211-based drivers
>  #auto wlan0
>  iface wlan0 inet static
>          address 192.168.6.1
>          netmask 255.255.255.0
>          broadcast 192.168.6.255
>          up iwconfig wlan0 essid *Voyage4* mode Master
>
>   On 26 sep 2011, at 20.39, Laili Aidi wrote:
>
>  Hej,
>
>  Not sure if have to start new thread, but I also have trouble set up AP
> with master mode in Voyage 0.7.5. I've configured one in Voyage 0.7.0
> following what's in README file and it's running well, but when I try with
> Voyage 0.7.5 with the same procedure, I can't see my AP running. I still
> can't find any idea what's missing or something wrong. This is the procedure
> and configuration that I've done.
> *root at voyage:~# **vi /etc/network/interfaces*
>   # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
>  # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
>  auto lo
>  iface lo inet loopback
>
>  auto eth0
>  iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>  # mac80211-based drivers
>  #auto wlan0
>  iface wlan0 inet static
>          address 192.168.6.1
>          netmask 255.255.255.0
>          broadcast 192.168.6.255
>          up iwconfig wlan0 essid Bytewalla-Voyage4 mode Master
>
>
>  *root at voyage:~#**vi /etc/default/hostapd*
>  UN_DAEMON="yes"
>
>  *root at voyage:~#**vi /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf*
>  interface=wlan0
>  driver=nl80211
>  logger_syslog=-1
>  logger_syslog_level=2
>  logger_stdout=-1
>  logger_stdout_level=2
>  debug=4
>  dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
>  ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
>  ctrl_interface_group=0
>  channel=6
>  macaddr_acl=0
>  auth_algs=3
>  eapol_key_index_workaround=0
>  eap_server=0
>  wpa=3
>  ssid=Voyage4
>  wpa_passphrase=Voyage4
>  wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>  wpa_pairwise=TKIP
>  eapol_version=1
>
>  *root at voyage:~#**vi /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf***
>  dhcp-range=wlan0,192.168.6.35,192.168.6.50,24h
>  dhcp-leasefile=/var/tmp/dnsmasq.leases
>
>  ***root at voyage:~#**/etc/init.d/hostapd restart*
>  *root at voyage:~#**/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart*
>  root at voyage:/etc/hostapd# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
>  Restarting DNS forwarder and DHCP server: dnsmasq.
>  **
>  But When I do /etc/network/interfaces restart, it shows this error:
> *root at voyage:~#**/etc/network/interfaces restart*
>  root at voyage:/etc/hostapd# /etc/network/interfaces restart
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 3: auto: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 4: iface: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 6: auto: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 7: iface: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 28: iface: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 29: address: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 30: netmask: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 31: broadcast: command not found
> /etc/network/interfaces: line 32: up: command not found
>
>  and in iwconfig, it still say may wlan0 is in "Managed" mode, even I have
> configured it as "Master"
>  *root at voyage:~# iwconfig*
>  lo        no wireless extensions.
>  eth0      no wireless extensions.
>  eth1      no wireless extensions.
>  eth2      no wireless extensions.
>  wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"Voyage4"
>            *Mode:Managed*  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=20 dBm
>
>            Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>            Encryption key:off
>            Power Management:off
>
>  I would helpful for any clue about this.
>
>  Aidi
>
>  On 26 sep 2011, at 03.27, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
>
> Hi ag,
>
> What does it break?  I used it everyday and my customer were using it
> without problems.
>
> On 9/26/2011 4:48 AM, Artie Gold wrote:
>
> The ath5k driver works pretty well for an access point on voyage 7.0
> (2.6.32 kernel), with a couple of known bugs that don't seem to cause much
> trouble in terms of functionality. In voyage 7.5 (2.6.38) it appears to be
> significantly broken.
>
>
>  Is there a sweet spot somewhere in between? (a better kernel/module
> combination) ...
>
>
>  Thanks!
>
> --ag
>
>
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