[vox] Converting Ubuntu Box into an Access Point
Ryan
cjg5ehir02 at sneakemail.com
Thu Oct 19 22:43:45 PDT 2006
On Monday 16 October 2006 09:57 am, Benjamin Allistair ammystars-at-gmail.com
|lugod| wrote:
> I am trying to convert my Ubuntu box into an access point. I only have
> my OS X laptop as a client to see if what I'm doing is working.
>
> Basically what I have done is installed hostapd, bridge-utils, and
> wireless-tools using apt-get.
>
> I am loading the hostap_ drivers and have blacklists the orinoco_
> drivers that come by default.
>
> From OS X I can see the SSID but when I go to authenticate, I am only
> given the option of using WEP and it won't authenticate anyways.
Are you using a prism2 wireless card? If so, try updating the firmware on it.
There are some howtos available for this online, try google.
> Below are snippets from what I thought to be relative config file
> entries and system info.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Here is a snippet from my /etc/network/interfaces
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> auto eth1
> #iface eth1 inet manual
> #iwconfig wifi0 mode Master
> #iwconfig eth1 essid Oneil2
>
> iface br0 inet dhcp
> bridge_ports eth0 eth1
> pre-up ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
> pre-up ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up
> pre-up iwconfig wifi0 mode master
> pre-up brctl addbr br0
> pre-up brctl addbr eth0
> pre-up brctl addbr eth1
> post-down ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 down
> post-down ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 down
> post-down brctl delif br0 eth0
> post-down brctl delif br0 eth1
> post-down brctl delbr br0
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Here is my hostapd.conf
> interface=eth1
> bridge=br0
> driver=hostap
> logger_syslog=-1
> logger_syslog_level=2
> logger_stdout=-1
> logger_stdout_level=2
> debug=0
> dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
> ctrl_interface_group=0
> ssid=Oneil24
> auth_algs=3
> eapol_key_index_workaround=0
> eap_server=0
> wpa=3
> wpa_psk_file=/etc/hostapd/wpa_psk
> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
> stakey=0
>
> ------------------------------------
> My /etc/hostapd/wpa_psk file looks like:
> 00:00:00:00:00:00 1234567890
>
> ------------------------------------
> yan at celery:~$ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:CD:0F:7A
> inet addr:192.168.2.3 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::210:4bff:fecd:f7a/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:2174 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:893 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:1713966 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:89343 (87.2 KiB)
> Interrupt:11
>
> eth1ap Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> 00-04-E2-80-49-FD-00-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2290 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
> 00-04-E2-80-49-FD-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:602 (602.0 b) TX bytes:512 (512.0 b)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> yan at celery:~$ iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Oneil24"
> Mode:Master Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:80:49:FD
> Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
> Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:off
>
> eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Oneil24"
> Mode:Master Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:80:49:FD
> Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
> Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:2 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:9 Invalid misc:13439 Missed beacon:0
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1ap IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Oneil24"
> Mode:Master Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:80:49:FD
> Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
> Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:off
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> yan at celery:~$ lsmod | grep hostap
> hostap_cs 69272 3
> hostap 128260 1 hostap_cs
> ieee80211_crypt 7296 3
> ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211_crypt_tkip,hostap pcmcia
> 42556 1 hostap_cs
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