hostapd - wifi AP daemon

[curaga]

- My previous router was some crummy 200Mhz ARM, check out the new 12-core Istanbul one
- How's that different? Getting faster wlan?
- duh, it's the latency that counts

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

[tcman]

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)

[curaga]

- is your wifi interface named wlan0?
- are the drivers capable of master mode?

[tcman]

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?

[curaga]

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)

[curaga]

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.

[aris]

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

[polikuo]

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.

[curaga]

..and if it still fails, look in its log file. You may need to enable syslog for the logs to appear.

[aris]

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


[Rich]

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?

[aris]

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:~$


[Rich]

Hi aris
Try changing:

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#!/bin/shto:

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!/bin/sh

[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.

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 ?

[Rich]

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.