I tried the default /etc/hostapd/hostapd.wlan0.conf in voyage-current which has channel set to 6. I copy&paste full config:<div><br></div><div><div>interface=wlan0</div><div>driver=nl80211</div><div>logger_syslog=-1</div>
<div>logger_syslog_level=2</div><div>logger_stdout=-1</div><div>logger_stdout_level=2</div><div>debug=4</div><div>#dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump</div><div>#ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd</div><div>#ctrl_interface_group=0</div>
<div>channel=6</div><div>macaddr_acl=0</div><div>auth_algs=3</div><div>eapol_key_index_workaround=0</div><div>eap_server=0</div><div>wpa=3</div><div>ssid=voyage-mpd</div><div>wpa_passphrase=voyage-mpd</div><div>wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK</div>
<div>wpa_pairwise=TKIP</div><div>eapol_version=1</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/15 Punky Tse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com">punkytse@punknix.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">


  
    
  
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    Hi Pablo,<br>
    <br>
    did you set channel, e.g.:<br>
    <br>
    channel=11<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 15/5/2011 19:22, Pablo Escobar wrote:
    <blockquote type="cite">I have tried the latest voyage-current available in
      the web and I still can´t get my card in ap mode
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>I have seen voyage-current has
        a  /etc/hostapd/hostapd.wlan0.conf file by default. So I edited
        the /etc/default/hostapd to use that config and I keep getting
        the same output from iwconfig and I can´t see the ap ssid with
        my client computer :(</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div><br>
        <div><br>
          <div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/15 Punky Tse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com" target="_blank">punkytse@punknix.com</a>></span><br>
            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
              <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi,<br>
                <br>
                You may need the daily (voyage-current), which includes
                2.6.38, as 9280 sounds like a device.<br>
                <br>
                Regards,<br>
                Punky
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                  <div><br>
                    <br>
                    On 15/5/2011 6:18, Pablo Escobar wrote: </div>
                </div>
                <blockquote type="cite">
                  <div>
                    <div>Hi,
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>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</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>I have tried to follow this guide without
                        success:</div>
                      <div><a href="http://www.punknix.com/dnma92-ath9k-and-hostapd-with-voyage-linux" target="_blank">http://www.punknix.com/dnma92-ath9k-and-hostapd-with-voyage-linux</a></div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>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</div>
                      <div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>interface=wlan0</div>
                        <div>driver=nl80211</div>
                        <div>ssid=yourssidhere</div>
                        <div>hw_mode=g</div>
                        <div>ieee80211n=1</div>
                      </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>This is my /etc/default/hostapd  file:</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf</div>
                      <div>DAEMON_OPTS="-dd"</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>And in my /etc/network/interfaces I have
                        this:</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>
                        <div>auto wlan0</div>
                        <div>iface wlan0 inet static</div>
                        <div>       address 10.5.30.1</div>
                        <div>       netmask 255.255.255.0</div>
                        <div>       broadcast 10.5.30.255</div>
                        <div>        up nat.sh wlan0 eth0 "<a href="http://10.5.30.0/24" target="_blank">10.5.30.0/24</a>"</div>
                      </div>
                      <div> <br>
                      </div>
                      <div>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)</div>
                      <div><a href="http://marc.info/?l=voyage-linux&m=129999678907115&w=2" target="_blank">http://marc.info/?l=voyage-linux&m=129999678907115&w=2</a></div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>My wireless card never gets the ssid. This is
                        the output that I get from "iwconfig" command</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>  </div>
                      <div>
                        <div>wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  Mode:Master
                           Frequency:2.462 GHz  Tx-Power=20 dBm   </div>
                        <div>          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off
                            Fragment thr:off</div>
                        <div>          Power Management:on</div>
                        <div>          </div>
                        <div>mon.wlan0  IEEE 802.11abgn  Mode:Monitor
                           Frequency:2.462 GHz  Tx-Power=20 dBm   </div>
                        <div>          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off
                            Fragment thr:off</div>
                        <div>          Power Management:off</div>
                      </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>¿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. </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>many thanks for any help.</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
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