ap modes

[Brian Wilson]

Well, I have managed to flash my USR2450 up to the latest LinuxAP
build (2003-09-01) and have updated the secondary firmware on the
USR2445 pc card to 1.7.1 (I think newest that will work in my card
which is NICID 8002).

I loaded the 2002-06-08 image via Pretec card then used TFTP and
reflash to get the new image loaded. (MD5 does not match for on the
SRAM image that is on Keith's Website, but flash image is okay). I
used the flash.exe program to do the card. The card works fine
in my laptop as a client.

I have played with different runlevels (2.3.4). Can't get it to
function as an AP... (mode=Master) I can manually force my laptop and
the USR into Ad-Hoc mode and get packets to pass back and forth.

When in runlevel 3 (bridging mode) I can force it into Ad-Hoc
and then ping the AP from the wired network and from the wireless
network but pakcets aren't passing through.

Any more helpful hints?

I am adding some comments to Bruno's fact and will
pass it back to him once things are running.


wlan0: NIC: id=0x8002 v1.0.0
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.1

-- How things look in runlevel 4 -- currently setting IP's in netcfg --

# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:D1:01:2C:0E
inet addr:192.168.123.250 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2409 (2.3 kiB) TX bytes:39289 (38.3 kiB)
Interrupt:14 Base address:0x200

# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:D1:01:2C:0E
inet addr:10.0.0.250 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:49 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 iB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:"clickshift"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:90:D1:01:2C:0E
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[Roy]

I dont know why this flash is left broken, and no updates anymore probably
it is forgotten.
it may work in AP and station mode probably ( I didnt tested)
but certainly it dont work in hostap(bridge) mode. this is because autor
forgot to add and setup wds links
either hostap driver either prism chipset does not support bridging,
while in station mode it do not accept any other mac adreses than it own (
no promisc mode)

You can try my flash which is suposed to be free from these problems and
have trafic shaping ability
compiled with new and exchanged C ( fast) cgi interface that show more
wireless statistic
basicaly it is by default in hostap mode ( default address 192.168.10.50)
you can get it there
http://pupa.da.ru/flash
http://pupa.da.ru/flash.md5



----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Wilson" <***@clickshift.com>
To: "Linux Access Point Development" <linuxap-***@linuxAP.ksmith.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 5:12 AM
Subject: [LinuxAP-dev] ap modes

Post by Brian Wilson
Well, I have managed to flash my USR2450 up to the latest
LinuxAP
build (2003-09-01) and have updated the secondary firmware on the
USR2445 pc card to 1.7.1 (I think newest that will work in my card
which is NICID 8002).
I loaded the 2002-06-08 image via Pretec card then used TFTP and
reflash to get the new image loaded. (MD5 does not match for on the
SRAM image that is on Keith's Website, but flash image is okay). I
used the flash.exe program to do the card. The card works fine
in my laptop as a client.
I have played with different runlevels (2.3.4). Can't get it to
function as an AP... (mode=Master) I can manually force my laptop and
the USR into Ad-Hoc mode and get packets to pass back and forth.
When in runlevel 3 (bridging mode) I can force it into Ad-Hoc
and then ping the AP from the wired network and from the wireless
network but pakcets aren't passing through.
Any more helpful hints?
I am adding some comments to Bruno's fact and will
pass it back to him once things are running.
wlan0: NIC: id=0x8002 v1.0.0
wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.7.1
-- How things look in runlevel 4 -- currently setting IP's in netcfg --
# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:D1:01:2C:0E
inet addr:192.168.123.250 Bcast:192.168.123.255

Mask:255.255.255.0

Post by Brian Wilson
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2409 (2.3 kiB) TX bytes:39289 (38.3 kiB)
Interrupt:14 Base address:0x200
# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:D1:01:2C:0E
inet addr:10.0.0.250 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:49 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 iB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11-b ESSID:'"'clickshift'"'
Mode:Master Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point: 00:90:D1:01:2C:0E
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
--
Brian Wilson
Corvallis, Oregon
541-757-2045
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[Bruno Lopes F. Cabral]

Hi

I'd suggest you to ask on hostap mailing list, because they
can know for sure that the hostap version inside newest
linuxAP (0.0.4) has support to your firmware image 1.7.1...

BTW, how you upgraded card firmware? if was using windows,
there is a registry entry that will make it behave as an
AP. that way you can test if the flash firmware upgrade
was successfull (just to be sure)

Cheers
!3runo

Post by Brian Wilson
Well, I have managed to flash my USR2450 up to the latest LinuxAP
build (2003-09-01) and have updated the secondary firmware on the
USR2445 pc card to 1.7.1 (I think newest that will work in my card
which is NICID 8002).
I loaded the 2002-06-08 image via Pretec card then used TFTP and
reflash to get the new image loaded. (MD5 does not match for on the
SRAM image that is on Keith's Website, but flash image is okay). I
used the flash.exe program to do the card. The card works fine
in my laptop as a client.
I have played with different runlevels (2.3.4). Can't get it to
function as an AP... (mode=Master) I can manually force my laptop and
the USR into Ad-Hoc mode and get packets to pass back and forth.
When in runlevel 3 (bridging mode) I can force it into Ad-Hoc
and then ping the AP from the wired network and from the wireless
network but pakcets aren't passing through.
Any more helpful hints?