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Offline curaga

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hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« on: October 10, 2009, 12:04:30 PM »
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Title:          hostapd.tcz
Description:    Wlan AP mode daemon
Version:        0.6.9-3
Author:         Jouni Malinen
Original-site:  http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd
Copying-policy: GPL
Size:      172K
Extension_by:   Curaga
Comments:       Using this your comp can be a wireless access point.
      Open auth, WEP, WPA-PSK supported.
      Requires a mac80211 wireless driver (b43, ath*k, etc)
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      Copy /usr/local/etc/hostapd.conf.sample somewhere, and
      run as:
      sudo hostapd /path/to/conf
Change-log:     
Current:        2009/10/10 Original
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Offline tcman

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2010, 02:49:12 AM »
Hi Curaga,

I try to enable hostapd and got an error as below (I copied config file and renamed to apd.conf). Any clue on this please help.

tc@box:/mnt/sda1/tce$ sudo hostapd apd.conf
Configuration file: apd.conf
Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode.
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x8f566c8 user_data=(nil) handler=0x806d047

My machine is Acer Aspire One 110 (8GB SSD)

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2010, 03:00:39 AM »
- is your wifi interface named wlan0?
- are the drivers capable of master mode?
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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2010, 07:29:14 AM »
Thanks for your prompt reply.
- Yes, my wireless interface is wlan0.
- Checked/found ath5k driver used (Atheros AR2425 chip).
- Try to set master mode and got error.
tc@box:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Any idea?

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2010, 07:39:37 AM »
That error is expected; master mode can only be set by hostapd nowadays.

See if there's more to the logs with increased verbosity (sudo hostapd -d -v /path/to/apd.conf)

edit: and of course, was the interface free? (ie. down, no udhcpc running on it etc)
« Last Edit: May 08, 2010, 07:41:12 AM by curaga »
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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2010, 08:31:56 AM »
Well, http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ath5kAccessPoint claims it's only supported from .31 onwards. See if using the compat-wireless extension (wireless-2.6.29.1-tinycore_mod.tcz) instead of the normal one helps.
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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2017, 01:58:02 AM »
hi there
Im trying to setup hostpad using old mini pci, I'm on amd geode 233 with 128MB ram..alix old board
I cant find hostpad.tcz for Linux box 4.2.9-tinycore version 7.2, so I coppied the tcz for v8 and with .dep file

load it and its working manually
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sudo hostapd -B /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf
tc@box:~$ ps | grep hostapd
 1013 root     hostapd /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf

Problem is when I want to run it automatically

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tc@box:~$ cat /opt/bootlocal.sh
#!/bin/sh
 
sudo hostapd -B /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf
/usr/local/etc/init.d/openssh start &

It wont autostart, dmesg show no info about hostapd
I obviously missing something...any clue ?

and I cant connect to hostapd AP yet
with open (no security) ..playing with it now..

thanks

Offline polikuo

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2017, 03:11:59 AM »
hi there
Im trying to setup hostpad using old mini pci, I'm on amd geode 233 with 128MB ram..alix old board
I cant find hostpad.tcz for Linux box 4.2.9-tinycore version 7.2, so I coppied the tcz for v8 and with .dep file

load it and its working manually
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sudo hostapd -B /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf
tc@box:~$ ps | grep hostapd
 1013 root     hostapd /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf

Problem is when I want to run it automatically

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tc@box:~$ cat /opt/bootlocal.sh
#!/bin/sh
 
sudo hostapd -B /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf
/usr/local/etc/init.d/openssh start &

It wont autostart, dmesg show no info about hostapd
I obviously missing something...any clue ?

and I cant connect to hostapd AP yet
with open (no security) ..playing with it now..

thanks

/opt/bootlocal.sh is already run by root, remove the "sudo" from the file and reboot.

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2017, 10:50:16 AM »
..and if it still fails, look in its log file. You may need to enable syslog for the logs to appear.
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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2017, 05:47:29 PM »
Hi @polikuo
I used sudo because the non sudo is not starting hostapd..but sudo doesnt start it also

Here is the log...still no hostapd running

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ps | grep hostapd
 1058 tc       grep hostapd

cat /var/log/messages | grep Ather
Jan  1 00:12:49 box user.info kernel: ath5k: phy0: Atheros AR2413 chip found (MAC: 0x78, PHY: 0x45)

cat /var/log/messages | grep hostapd
Jan  1 00:12:08 box authpriv.notice sudo:       tc : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/mnt/sda1/tce/optional ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/mkdir -p /tmp/tcloop/hostapd
Jan  1 00:12:08 box authpriv.notice sudo:       tc : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/mnt/sda1/tce/optional ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/mount hostapd.tcz /tmp/tcloop/hostapd -t squashfs -o loop,ro,bs=4096
Jan  1 00:12:08 box authpriv.notice sudo:       tc : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/mnt/sda1/tce/optional ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/cp -ais /tmp/tcloop/hostapd/usr /

tc@box:~$ date
Sat Jan  1 00:14:57 UTC 2000

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2017, 06:08:23 PM »
Hi aris
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tc@box:~$ cat /opt/bootlocal.sh
#!/bin/sh
 
sudo hostapd -B /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf
/usr/local/etc/init.d/openssh start &
Is that the full result of the  cat  command or are there other entries in your  bootlocal.sh  file?

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2017, 12:55:23 AM »
Hi Rich
here is full bootlocal.sh
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cat /opt/bootlocal.sh
#!/bin/sh
# put other system startup commands here
 #busybox httpd
#/usr/local/httpd/sbin/httpd -p 80 -h /mnt/sda1/wwwsite
 #apache2mod
#rm -rf /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
#ln -s /opt/apache2/htdocs /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
#ln -sf /opt/apache2/httpd.conf /usr/local/apache2/conf/
#apachectl start
 #eth0 205
/opt/eth0.sh
hostapd -B /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf
/usr/local/etc/init.d/openssh start &

tc@box:~$

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2017, 06:43:11 AM »
Hi aris
Try changing:
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#!/bin/shto:
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!/bin/sh

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2017, 08:58:58 AM »
Hi Rich.
Hi aris
Try changing:
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#!/bin/shto:
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!/bin/sh
I don't think shebang works that way.

Maybe you could try it this way instead.
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/usr/local/bin/hostapd -B /usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf 2>&1 | tee /tmp/hostapd.log
Read the log file to see what happened.
BTW, it looks like there's no such file by default. (/usr/local/etc/config/hostapd.conf)
Did you add it into your /opt/.filetool.lst and backup ?
« Last Edit: December 27, 2017, 09:01:31 AM by polikuo »

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Re: hostapd - wifi AP daemon
« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2017, 09:39:36 AM »
Hi polikuo
Hi Rich.
Hi aris
Try changing:
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#!/bin/shto:
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!/bin/sh
I don't think shebang works that way.
You are of course correct. I saw everything being commented out and my brain somehow shifted into stupid instead of drive. :o