From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com ([209.85.218.213]:40223 "EHLO mail-bw0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753429AbZF2OFT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:05:19 -0400 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so3274418bwz.37 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:05:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: javier.galvez@entel.upc.edu In-Reply-To: <1246277392.21239.6.camel@mj> References: <145d4e1a0906290158y4710d68ej270907f297335d42@mail.gmail.com> <145d4e1a0906290200v4a45d83esf8eab021f6d094f9@mail.gmail.com> <1246277392.21239.6.camel@mj> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:05:17 +0200 Message-ID: <145d4e1a0906290705k178e5bfalc3cb0842eabad8c5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Using a Debian box as an AP with wireless testing and hostapd From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_G=E1lvez_Guerrero?= To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Pavel, Thanks a lot for your answer. I successfully uninstalled the compat-wireless package and no it is running properly. Anyway, I'm experiencing a problem while configuring the box as a DHCP server. I will tell you my problem, but if you consider this is not the place to discuss such issue I will understand. I configured dhcpd like this: --> /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf:Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file. Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: No subnet declaration for wlan0 (0.0.0.0). Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: ** Ignoring requests on wlan0. If this is not what Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: you want, please write a subnet declaration Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: to which interface wlan0 is attached. ** Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Not configured to listen on any interfaces! ddns-update-style none; option domain-name-servers 147.83.2.3, 147.83.2.10; default-lease-time 86400; max-lease-time 604800; authoritative; subnet 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.3.2 192.168.3.254; option domain-name-servers 147.83.2.3,147.83.2.10; option routers 192.168.3.1; option broadcast-address 192.168.3.255; default-lease-time 100000; max-lease-time 100000; } --> /etc/default/dhcp3-server: # Defaults for dhcp initscript # sourced by /etc/init.d/dhcp # installed at /etc/default/dhcp3-server by the maintainer scripts # # This is a POSIX shell fragment # # On what interfaces should the DHCP server (dhcpd) serve DHCP requests? # Separate multiple interfaces with spaces, e.g. "eth0 eth1". INTERFACES="wlan0" AFAIK, I just need this to configure the DHCP server in my box. Next, I should configure some NATting with iptables. However, when issuing /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server start I get this message: faye:/home/dulceangustia# /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server start Starting DHCP server: dhcpd3check syslog for diagnostics. failed! failed! And in /var/log/syslog I see: Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file. Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: No subnet declaration for wlan0 (0.0.0.0). Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: ** Ignoring requests on wlan0. If this is not what Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: you want, please write a subnet declaration Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: to which interface wlan0 is attached. ** Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Jun 29 16:01:12 faye dhcpd: Not configured to listen on any interfaces! BTW, the leases file do exist as I 'touch'ed it. I can't understand why it says that the dhcp server is not configured to listen on any interfaces. Seems I'm missing some easy configuration but after some time googling it seems that I should already have it running. Any idea on how to carry on configuring my AP? Thanks for your time and sorry for the inconvenience, Javi 2009/6/29 Pavel Roskin : > 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 >