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Posted August 30th, 2005 by HaQue

What drivers are you all using for the Senao SL-2511MP MiniPCI cards?

I am using the hostap drivers on the WRAP at the moment... is that what you use?

I think the Orinoco have more features, but not sure if it has AP mode.

Cheers


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hostap is the biz

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On August 30th, 2005 samiam says:

I think the whole idea of having a card that is ap or client relies on hostap

That is why everybody uses the prism chipset

intersil prism != orinocco hermes

seems that hermes also works under hostap, im confused

Sam


well hostap reckons the

On August 30th, 2005 HaQue says:

well hostap reckons the cards are all up, but nothing seems to be transmitting


the host ap drivers have

On August 30th, 2005 HaQue says:

the host ap drivers have wlan0 and wifi0 for the first card and wlan1 and wifi1 for the second.

What is the correct interface names to use? is it either/or?
or bring wlan0 up and use wifi0 to config?

I had all 4 wireless interfaces(physically 2 interfaces) showing they were up ok in ifconfig and iwconfig, but did not get any kismet activity at all.


sounds wrong

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On August 31st, 2005 samiam says:

Ive seen 2 -3 cards using hostap and only appearing as wlan0 wlan1 and wlan2

sounds like the cards are being loaded by two differnt kernel modules concurrently

Sam


maybe..

On August 31st, 2005 HaQue says:

well I found a thread at this site that shows the following that makes me think it should be like that....

my /etc/network/interfaces
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        pre-up iwconfig wifi0 mode managed
        pre-up iwconfig wifi0 essid "my network"
        up iptables-restore /etc/network/iptables

that all is ok. I can do a iwlist wifi0 scan and see some other networks.

more info

On September 1st, 2005 HaQue says:

At the meeting last night hat helped me to to resolve the senao issues.

We did some initial testing after config changes but I didnt have the right pigtails to connect an antenna. It appeared to be working.

I found at this page reference to the wlan0 and wifi0 interfaces that the hostap uses:

now by typing: iwconfig, you will see your wireless interface.
you would see 2 wireless interfaces: wifi0 and wlan0
wifi0 is something like a virtual dumb device, you must use wlan0 for configuration purposes
ifconfig wlan0 10.35.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid thenetworknamehere
route add default gw dev wlan0 10.35.0.1
where 10.35.0.5 is your ip and 10.35.0.1 is the ip gateway.
Now try to ping other ips on you lan and it must work.

then further down a reply states that:

I don't think wifi0 is a "virtual dumb device". It should be sufficient to say that is should not be used except for purposes outside of scope of your document.

so I think it is safe to say that wlan0 is all you need to use and just ignore wifi0.

This page has a huge discussion on a few aspects of the drivers, the interfaces and if you wade thru it you can glean quite a bit of insight on how it all gels.

Hope this helps anyone else that is new to this stuff.


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