Re: ath5k master (AP) mode

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Nick Kossifidis wrote:

> The only reason we haven't enabled AP support yet is that it didn't
> work on some devices and we need to make more tests to be sure that
> it's ok.

I found a blog entry from Jiri saying he had it working on the AR5212,
but I'm unable to reproduce his luck.  I only added the patch to enable
AP mode, assuming the rest are already in the wireless-testing tree.

My NIC:
16:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)

As long as I leave channel=0, I don't see any obvious errors when I start hostapd,
but I don't see any APs show up on a friend's Vista system (or my G1).  If I try
to set a channel (channel=1, for instance), then it fails to set the channel and aborts.

I haven't used hostapd before, so I could be messing that up somehow.  I'm trying
the latest git snapshot as of today, and the libnl-1.1


Here is my hostapd startup, in case it helps:

[root@ibmt60w-1 hostapd]# ./hostapd -d hostapd_ath5k.conf
Configuration file: hostapd_ath5k.conf
ctrl_interface_group=0
Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 10596688
BSS count 1, BSSID mask ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (0 bits)
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf
wlan1: IEEE 802.11 Fetching hardware channel/rate support not supported.
Flushing old station entries
Deauthenticate all stations
Using interface wlan1 with hwaddr 00:0b:6b:20:88:75 and ssid 'ben-ath5k'
wlan1: Setup of interface done.
MGMT (TX callback) ACK
MGMT (TX callback) ACK
mgmt::proberesp cb
MGMT (TX callback) ACK
mgmt::proberesp cb

I see these in the kernel logs, as well:
Feb 11 17:55:23 ibmt60w-1 kernel: ath5k phy1: beacon queue 7 didn't stop?
Feb 11 17:56:27 ibmt60w-1 kernel:last message repeated 74 times
[root@ibmt60w-1 ~]#


Thanks,
Ben


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