[Voyage-products] wds setup

[Punky Tse]

Wesly,

Read:
http://hostap.epitest.fi/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/hostap/README?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain

On 7/4/05, Wesley Allison <scgn at pipeline.com> wrote:
> It is a prism chipset. I am getting stuck in the /etc/network/interfaces
> file. If I do a standard setup without trying to add WDS I can get
> everything working. I start trying to add the WDS part to the interfaces
> file and it kills everything. I can add WDS links manually and everything
> works fine. Any pointers would be appreciated and I have added my interfaces
> file below. Some parts are commented out as I am messing around trying to
> get it working.
> 
> 
> # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
> # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
> 
> auto  eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> wireless-essid hotspot1
> wireless-channel 11
> wireless-rate auto
> wireless-mode master
> pre-up /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 wds_type 4
> pre-up /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 sutom_ap_wds 1
> pre-up /sbin/iwpriv wlan0 other_ap_policy 2
> 
> #iface wlan0wds0 inet static
> #address 0.0.0.0
> #netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> #iface br0 inet static
> #pre-up brctl addbr br0
> #pre-up brctl addif br0 eth0
> #pre-up brctl addif br0 wlan0
> #pre-up brctl addif br0 wlan0wds0
> #pre-up brctl stp br0 on
> #address 192.168.5.3
> #netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Wesley Allison
> scgn at pipeline.com
> 
> 
> 
> ----Original Message-----
> From: Punky Tse [mailto:punkytse at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:27 PM
> To: Scgn at pipeline.com
> Cc: voyage-products at list.voyage.hk
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-products] wds setup
> 
> Wesley
> What wireless card do you have?  If it is hostap (prism 2.5), things
> could be easy.  If it is otherwise, you need to go the corresponding
> kernel driver website to see how.
> 
> Punky
> 
> On 7/3/05, Wesley Allison <scgn at pipeline.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello every one, I am new to the list and I would like to say I am very
> > excited about this project. I was testing pebble Linux and load voyage to
> > give it a look see. Voyage fits what we are trying to do a little better
> > than pebble and I like the fact that wireless tools all seem to be
> compiled
> > correctly. So down to my first question for the list, I have setup some
> WDS
> > links between another voyage AP and a linksys wrt54g manually. I have read
> > about the /etc/network/interfaces file to setup your wlan0 and eth0 and
> br0
> > interfaces on startup but I am also trying to add my WDS link information
> in
> > this file to get it to activate on startup. I have had no success with
> this
> > approach. I get my wlan0 eth0 and br0 interfaces at startup but not WDS.
> Can
> > anyone point me to some resources on how to get WDS to activate on startup
> > or post an example of their interface file so I can see what I am doing
> > wrong?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Wes
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> 
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