wlan0,wlan0ap,wlansta

[Jarmie Espuerta]

what is the difference between the wlan0, wlan0ap and wlan0sta? i think 
i have a big problem here.... i have build up my pc as a hostap (with 
the driver hostap-0.0.1 and linux-2.4.20). then when it is time to check 
if everything is fine with my access point, i assigned a essid for my 
accesspoint as "dmr' having an IP add of 192.168.41.5 and it is in a 
Master mode, then i configured a base station to act as my client with 
"dmr" as its essid having an IP add of 192.168.41.2.  

here comes the problem... the base station cannot ping the access point. 
 i really need some help over here. for additional information, here's 
what my wlan0 looks..

bash #iwconfig

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"dmr"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power:-31 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:88/92  Signal level:-40 dBm  Noise level:-84 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:41650   Missed beacon:0

bash# ifconfig -a

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:76:72:82:51
          inet addr:10.10.6.33  Bcast:10.10.6.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:121459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18352 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
          collisions:9 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:19709028 (18.7 Mb)  TX bytes:2418376 (2.3 Mb)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xa000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:18049 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18049 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2019470 (1.9 Mb)  TX bytes:2019470 (1.9 Mb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
          inet addr:192.168.41.5  Bcast:162.168.41.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6172 errors:0 dropped:40 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:691760 (675.5 Kb)  TX bytes:902298 (881.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0x100

wlan0ap   Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-60-B3-76-9E-8A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1056 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:95040 (92.8 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0x100

wlan0sta  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B3:76:9E:8A
          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:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0x100

thank you very much.


regards,
jarmie