On Monday 28 August 2006 00:29, Celejar wrote:
> Wireless card is Trendware TEW443-PI. Chipset is Atheros AR5212 802.11abg
> NIC (rev 01). pciid is 168c:0013. Kernel is 2.6.12-1-386. 'madwifi-source'
> is 0.svnr1697.0.9.2-1.
>
> 'modprobe ath_pci autocreate=ap'; here's dmesg:
> > ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
> > RF5413) ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (svn r1697)
> > ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r1697)
> > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0d.0
> > wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> > wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
> > 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps wifi0: turboG rates: 6Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
> > 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES
> > AES_CCM TKIP
> > wifi0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
> > wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
> > wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
> > wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
> > wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
> > wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
> > wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
> > wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xe5900000, irq=5
>
> 'grep '^[^#]' /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf':
> > interface=ath0
> > driver=madwifi
> > logger_syslog=-1
> > logger_syslog_level=2
> > logger_stdout=-1
> > logger_stdout_level=2
> > debug=0
> > dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
> > ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
> > ctrl_interface_group=0
> > ssid=xxxxxxxx
> > macaddr_acl=0
> > auth_algs=3
> > eapol_key_index_workaround=0
> > eap_server=0
> > own_ip_addr=127.0.0.1
>
> 'iwconfig':
> > lo        no wireless extensions.
> >
> > eth0      no wireless extensions.
> >
> > sit0      no wireless extensions.
> >
> > wifi0     no wireless extensions.
> >
> > ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"xxxxxxxx"
> >           Mode:Master  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
> >           Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
> >           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >           Encryption key:off
> >           Power Management:off
> >           Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
> >           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> 'ifconfig ath0':
> > ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> >           inet addr:192.168.0.4  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> I do 'hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' and get:
> > Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
> > ctrl_interface_group=0
> > madwifi_set_iface_flags: dev_up=0
> > Using interface ath0 with hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx and ssid 'xxxxxxxx'
> > Flushing old station entries
> > madwifi_sta_deauth: addr=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff reason_code=3
> > ioctl[IEEE80211_IOCTL_SETMLME]: Invalid argument
> > Could not connect to kernel driver.
> > Deauthenticate all stations
> > rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
> > madwifi_set_iface_flags: dev_up=0

http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2006-August/013897.html

I would say this is more a problem of madwifi => it is not supporting 
plaintext mode.

Thanks, Kel.


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