Please help: hostapd hangs
Yulia McCarthy
Can someone pleeeaaase help me with this? I'm a total newbie here.
I have built my Chromium OS image successfully, it runs fine off a USB
key on my Samsung Chromebook Series 5 ALEX EPSILON-US 4507.
Now, I need to configure my Atheros AR9382 wireless card to become an
Access Point (it uses ath9k driver and is AP mode compatible).
So, I have added packages that I believe I need in order to accomplish
this to my image using: emerge-x86-generic -k --root=/tmp/m
<package_name> (while having my image mounted to /tmp/m from USB
key). The packages seemed to install successfully.
List of packages I installed:
hostapd
bridge-utils
dhpc, dhcpcd
iw
(libnl, crda, wireless-regdb - just in case hoping that it would
help)
I'm trying to follow these instructions on setting up an AP on Linux:
http://www.su-root.eu/computing/turn-your-linux-computer-in-a-wireless-access-point-using-hostapd
and here http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd
But when I invoke: sudo hostapd -dd /hostapd-minimal.conf
with hostapd-minimal.conf content:
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=TestAP
channel=11
Either nothing happens at all and I don't even get any debug output (-
dd option) or command hangs right away or it hangs with this single
line of output: wlan0: STA 00:22:6b:8b:f2:90 IEEE 802.11:
diassociated
What is wrong with this??
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!
Yulia
Yulia McCarthy
hang like this, it still works, AP network becomes visible over the
air and I can connect another 802.11 device, I just had to open new
console to be able to configure other things... Among which is a
bridge between eth0 and wlan0 interfaces... (because I can only
connect to the AP but can't get online).
But now I have another issue. I installed bridge-utils package. It was
successful. But when I run: brctil addbr br0 I get an error message
"add bridge failed: Package not installed". I found out that it's
most likely caused by the fact that the kernel was compiled with
CONFIG_TUN = n , and CONFIG_BRIDGE = n. I can "insmod tun" but "insmod
bridge" fails, bridge module is not found...
So, I guess I have to recompile my kernel with CONFIG_BRIDGE = y...
Can someone please explain me HOW to do that?
Thanks.
Yulia
On Dec 9, 12:20 pm, Yulia McCarthy <yuly...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Can someone pleeeaaase help me with this? I'm a total newbie here.
> I have built my Chromium OS image successfully, it runs fine off a USB
> key on my Samsung Chromebook Series 5 ALEX EPSILON-US 4507.
> Now, I need to configure my Atheros AR9382 wireless card to become an
> Access Point (it uses ath9k driver and is AP mode compatible).
> So, I have added packages that I believe I need in order to accomplish
> this to my image using: emerge-x86-generic -k --root=/tmp/m
> <package_name> (while having my image mounted to /tmp/m from USB
> key). The packages seemed to install successfully.
> List of packages I installed:
> hostapd
> bridge-utils
> dhpc, dhcpcd
> iw
> (libnl, crda, wireless-regdb - just in case hoping that it would
> help)
>
> I'm trying to follow these instructions on setting up an AP on Linux:http://www.su-root.eu/computing/turn-your-linux-computer-in-a-wireles...
> and herehttp://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd
Sonny Rao
http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshooting/kernel-configuration
but basically you want to do something like this (I'm assuming you're
using the x86-generic overlay)
from inside the chroot:
cros_workon-x86-generic start chromeos-kernel
cd ~/trunk/src/third_party/kernel/file/
repo start bridge kernel
then edit chromeos/config/base.config and enable the config options you want
run "git commit . " and save your changes with a commit message
then rebuild your image
Sonny
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