Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:1714 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761762AbYD3VSi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:18:38 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so1074562pyb.10 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: (sfid-20080430_231828_745034_0AAAB2D0) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:18:36 +0200 From: "Francis Galiegue" To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BCM4308 rev 3 owner, willing to help (want to make an access point) In-Reply-To: <41960ccf0804290113k33e322f0se045d47bc654b90@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <4816D790.50302@gmail.com> <41960ccf0804290113k33e322f0se045d47bc654b90@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2008/4/29 Lorenzo Nava : [...] > > If you look for the thread "Does mac80211 support ap mode" in the > mailing list archive you can find some infos. > You have to download the patch "allow-ap-vlan-mode.patch" that you c= an > find at http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/ > Then you have to install hostapd (version 0.6.3) with nl80211 driver > (you can find all the informations that you need in the hostapd site= ). > At the moment you can't enable master mode with iwconfig, you can do > it only with hostapd. > OK, I got it all working with: - wireless-testing kernel, - libnl 1.1, - git master branch of hostapd. But I cannot do WPA, only "clear text". The thing is, my wlan interface is part of a bridge, and the bridge is set up as: brctl addif br0 eth0 brctl addif br0 wlan0 where wlan0 is the b43. I know nada about WPA, but can this have an influence? The MAC address of the bridge is the one of the Ethernet card, not the wireless one, and I specified wlan0 in hostapd.conf as the interface to grab... --=20 =46rancis Galiegue, fgaliegue@gmail.com "It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence' tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have nothing left for generating SQL queries" (St=E9phane Faroult, in "The Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html