Re: which hostapd version for which wireless driver

[Jochen Voss <voss@seehuhn.de>]

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Hi Johannes,

On 28 Aug 2007, at 09:54, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> Any help about which combinations of hostapd and device driver have at
>> least a chance of working together would be more than welcome.
>
> Both git trees (wireless-dev and hostapd) work fine together :)

Ok, it works now for me.  Knowing which of the many combination to play
with
helped to focus my efforts.  Thanks a lot for your help.

>> *** Netgear WG511 (prism54) ***
>>
>> I tried the following drivers:
>>
>> 5) CONFIG_P54_PCI in the latest wireless-dev
>
> I don't think that supports AP mode.
>
>> 6) PRISM54 in the lates wireless-dev
>> 7) PRISM54 in 2.6.23-rc3
>> 8) PRISM54 in 2.6.22.5
>
> Nor do those, HOSTAP driver is the one you'd want here, along with the
> hostap hostapd driver.

I tried this only shortly, but I am not so sure about this one.  The hostap
driver states that it is for "Prism 2/2.5/3 wlan cards".  Isn't there a
difference between this and prism54?

>>     root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 mode master
>>     root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 essid "SR20"
>>     root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 channel 6
>>     root@funk [~] iwconfig wlan1 rate 11M
>>     root@funk [~] ifconfig wlan1 up
>
> Don't do any of that, hostapd configures everything.

Ok, it does now.  My problem turned out to be the "hw_mode=b" in the config
file.  When I use "hw_mode=g" instead, everything suddenly starts to work
:-)

Many thanks,
Jochen
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