[ath9k-devel] ath9kl multiple ssid AP

[Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>]

Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:46 -0700, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for all the work.  I've got one AP working with kernel 2.6.29 and
>> ath9k
>>
>> I was wondering if there has been any change to the multiple ssid
>> support I see:
>> https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/2009-January/000911.html
>>
>> I also see quite a few commits in the last month or so.
>>
>> Is there any experimental git tree that has multiple AP ESSID support?
>>     
>
> All the virtual interface and multi-BSSID support patches have been
> added into wireless-testing.git tree, see
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/git-guide#Cloninglatestwireless-testing
>
> The current snapshot of that with the snapshot of hostapd development
> branch (hostap.git tree, i.e., 0.7.x branch) should allow multiple
> BSSIDs (i.e., also SSIDs) to be used with ath9k.
>
>   
>> What i eventually want to do is  bridge essid1 to eth0, and bridge
>> essid2 to eth1.
>>     
>
> That should be doable with the current implementation.
>
> - Jouni
>   

Thanks for the info.  I got it to work with an open AP.   WPA is not 
working though.  There is a hostapd error "Invalid pairwise cipher (0)" 
for a very simple config that worked for me before with one AP, and 
hostapd 0.6.8

Now I'm using hostapd from git.

# hostapd -ddK  /hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /hostapd.conf
ctrl_interface_group=0          
br0: port 2(wlan0) entering learning state
Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 809120051
BSS count 2, BSSID mask ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:fe (1 bits)
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf
nl80211: Added 802.11b mode based on 802.11g information
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=1 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=1 freq=2412 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=2 freq=2417 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=3 freq=2422 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=4 freq=2427 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=5 freq=2432 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=6 freq=2437 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=7 freq=2442 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=8 freq=2447 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=9 freq=2452 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=10 freq=2457 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
Allowed channel: mode=0 chan=11 freq=2462 MHz max_tx_power=20 dBm
RATE[0] rate=10 flags=0x2
RATE[1] rate=20 flags=0x6
RATE[2] rate=55 flags=0x6
RATE[3] rate=110 flags=0x6
RATE[4] rate=60 flags=0x0
RATE[5] rate=90 flags=0x0
RATE[6] rate=120 flags=0x0
RATE[7] rate=180 flags=0x0
RATE[8] rate=240 flags=0x0
RATE[9] rate=360 flags=0x0
RATE[10] rate=480 flags=0x0
RATE[11] rate=540 flags=0x0
Passive scanning not supported
Flushing old station entries
Deauthenticate all stations
Mode: IEEE 802.11g  Channel: 6  Frequency: 2437 MHz
nl80211: Set beacon (iface=wlan0 beacon_set=0)
nl80211: Set beacon DTIM period 2 (iface=wlan0 beacon_set=1)
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 00:0e:8e:19:ce:70 and ssid 'test1'
SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=5):
     74 65 73 74 31                                    test1
PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=17):
     73 65 63 72 65 74 20 70 61 73 73 70 68 72 61 73   secret passphras
     65                                                e
PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump(len=32): b0 44 57 49 35 29 ae 8a ce a5 
33 f8 73 55 cd a0 54 1e 62 52 89 28 e5 5a de 7b b2 63 1b 6a 18 50
Invalid pairwise cipher (0).
Could not generate WPA IE.
WPA initialization failed.
wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
Flushing old station entries
Deauthenticate all stations
rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
Flushing old station entries
Deauthenticate all stations
br0: port 2(wlan0) entering disabled state




hostapd.conf:

interface=wlan0
bridge=br0


driver=nl80211

logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=2
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=2
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0
hw_mode=g
channel=6
beacon_int=100
dtim_period=2
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=3
wpa_passphrase=secret passphrase

bss=wlan0_1
ssid=test2





hostapd $ cat .config
CONFIG_CRYPTO=internal
CONFIG_EAP=y
CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_WIRED=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y
CONFIG_PKCS12=y
CONFIG_RADIUS_SERVER=y
CONFIG_IAPP=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211R=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211W=y
CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y
CONFIG_PEERKEY=y
CONFIG_RSN_PREAUTH=y