configuration

[capacity77 at tin.it]

Your help are always useful!

I managed to solve something, other machines get an IP addr, everything
seems to work ggod but they can't communicate, even a ping doesn't work!
do you have any idea why this happens?

my distribution is debian supporting kernel v2.4.26.



>-- Messaggio originale --
>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:54:03 -0500
>From: Bob Beers <bob.beers at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Bob Beers <bob.beers at gmail.com>
>To: "capacity77 at tin.it" <capacity77 at tin.it>
>Subject: Re: configuration
>Cc: hostap at shmoo.com
>
>
>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:08:38 +0100, capacity77 at tin.it <capacity77 at tin.it>
>wrote:
>> Hi there!
>
>Hi,
>
>> I have some problem configuring hostap!
>
>Everyone does at first.
>
>> First: when I insert the card, two interfaces get loaded:
>> 
>> wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-50-8B-99-B7-FF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>           RX bytes:188 (188.0 b)  TX bytes:1824 (1.7 KiB)
>>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100
>> 
>> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8B:99:B7:FF
>>           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1824 (1.7 KiB)
>>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100
>> 
>> they seem the same interface but the wifi0 has a strange HWaddr, that's
>> the same of wlan0 but with many 00-00 in the end.
>
>This is normal, expected, correct behaviour for this driver.  Have you
read
> through the last few months of this list?  You should.
><http://sisyphus.iocaine.com/pipermail/hostap/>
>
>> 
>> Second: other machines see me as an AP but can't receive an IP from my
>dhcp
>> server!
>
>This is now a network configuration problem, not related to hostap itself.
>Is
> the access point box also the dhcp server? Is it supposed to be an ethernet
> bridge?
>
>> Is there a configuration you can advice me, or is there any good howto,
>> a simple to use one?
>
>Not without some more info from you about what your setup is and what
> you are trying to accomplish.  A lot depends on which distribution you
> are using.  You _can_ configure everything on the command line using
> "ifconfig wlan0" and "iwconfig wlan0", and a proper dhcpd.conf.  But for
> things to startup automatically differs between distributions.
>
>I hope this helps, but no one wants to answer these kinds of questions
on
>this
> list.  Your driver is installed, and working.  The rest is basic network
> administration stuff.
>
>Good luck,
>
>-bbeers