From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:40147 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758231AbZF2MJv (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:09:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Using a Debian box as an AP with wireless testing and hostapd From: Pavel Roskin To: javier.galvez@entel.upc.edu Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <145d4e1a0906290200v4a45d83esf8eab021f6d094f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <145d4e1a0906290158y4710d68ej270907f297335d42@mail.gmail.com> <145d4e1a0906290200v4a45d83esf8eab021f6d094f9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:09:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1246277392.21239.6.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:00 +0200, Javier Gálvez Guerrero wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use my Debian box as an AP using the latest wireless > testing kernel (2.6.30-wl) and a WiFi card Asus WL-138G v2 PCI but I'm > experiencing a weird problem, hope you can guide me through it. > > First, I'll tell what and how I setup it. I downloaded the wireless > testing kernel and installed it (make && make modules && make > modules_install && make install), prepared the boot images and updated > the grub; fine. Next I installed compat-wireless, wireless regdb, > crda, libnl, hostapd and iw following this tutorial > (http://acx100.erley.org/git.html), with slight modifications: install > some missing packages (m2crypto, libgcrypt-dev and libssl-dev) and, > after installing compat-wireless, 'make unload' as suggested by the > 'make install' output. You don't need compat-wireless with 2.6.30-wl. The whole point of compat-wireless is to backport the latest drivers from the "-wl" kernel to older kernels. Please remove /lib/modules/2.6.30-wl and reinstall the kernel by running "make modules_install install". -- Regards, Pavel Roskin