[vox] Converting Ubuntu Box into an Access Point
Benjamin Allistair
ammystars at gmail.com
Sun Oct 22 08:27:34 PDT 2006
Yes, I'm using a 3 year old SMC Elite Connect. This does indeed have a
prism2 chip. I can't even get the thing to authenticate using WEP. It
should at least do that. My config file should be adequate. I set the
wep key manually with iwconfig.
Maybe I'll try reflashing, however I don't want to risk bricking the thing.
On 10/19/06, Ryan <cjg5ehir02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> 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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