Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f177.google.com ([209.85.219.177]:54985 "EHLO mail-ew0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754311AbZCJVld (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:41:33 -0400 Received: by ewy25 with SMTP id 25so1443393ewy.37 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:37:57 +0100 From: "Christoph .J Thompson" To: Alexey Yudichev Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ath5k master (AP) mode Message-Id: <20090310223757.a8618b61.cjsthompson@gmail.com> (sfid-20090310_224145_184881_6B540777) In-Reply-To: <4dd58f490903101404m3678728ag13735851e232a8f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <4dd58f490903041329p54ec56ceh1b64ab000027eac5@mail.gmail.com> <4dd58f490903041333y4e2abe8r72204232ec4a65ac@mail.gmail.com> <20090304232625.cc47eb46.cjsthompson@gmail.com> <4dd58f490903041451x5044b464k47d70b1210b12f11@mail.gmail.com> <20090304232527.058017da.cjsthompson@gmail.com> <4dd58f490903051449h3b2eb96ay5d83d7ea8129370f@mail.gmail.com> <20090306084527.5a3b6300.cjsthompson@gmail.com> <4dd58f490903101404m3678728ag13735851e232a8f4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:04:17 +0000 Alexey Yudichev wrote: > Thanks. This link is broken however simple search brings me here: > http://wireless.erley.org/ > where the author says that Atheros AR5213A does not work: "Lets me set > master mode, and activate hostapd, but not found on other machines > while scanning". Well what I tried is I left the kernel on 2.6.27-13, > compiled latest compat-wireless, upgraded to hostapd 0.6.8 and I got > hostapd starting successfully. I configured it for open system and got > my Windows Mobile 5 PDA connecting to it successfully and even > interenet was working! WM6 Smartphone connects from 2nd or 3rd attempt > but has no access to internet for some reason. With WPA2-PSK WM6 > connects but still no internet and WM5 does not connect even though > the config is pretty standard: > wpa=3 > wpa_passphrase=abcdefgh > wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK > wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP > > Does this resemble your wpa configuration? I didn't try WPA yet but I will shortly. > Do you know, if I got this far, can unstable connection and not > working WPA be related to older kernel? I can't be sure. I don't have the unstable connection problem but I didn't use WPA yet. So maybe the unstable connection problem only happens with WPA. > What clients did you try? I can't understand why internet access works > on WM5 but not on WM6. Both devices worked great with hardware > wireless router. The client was Linux 2.6.29-rc6 with a USB WiFi key with the rtl8187L chipset. -- Christoph .J Thompson