ip for hostapd access poit

[Karl Hiramoto]

Andrzej Kosmala wrote:
> My ap starting and
> ifconfig wlan0 shows:
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:cd:0d:37:57 
>           inet6 addr: fe80::230:cdff:fe0d:3757/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:752 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:651 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:100123 (97.7 KiB)  TX bytes:95810 (93.5 KiB
>
> in my /etc/network/interfaces I have:
> iface wlan0 inet static
>     address 192.168.1.51
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>   broadcast 192.168.1.255
> My hostapd conf:
>
> interface=wlan0
> bdriver=nl80211
> #bridge=brd0
> hw_mode=g
> channel=11
> ssid=ralink
>
> logger_syslog=-1
> logger_syslog_level=2
> logger_stdout=-1
> logger_stdout_level=1
>
> Maybe I should add anythink to hostapd.conf?
> windows notebook can't get internet so I want try ssh to login on my 
> router first.
>   
AFIK, hostapd only cares about layer 2 configuation. It may remove the 
device layer 3 configuration while hostapd is starting.   After starting 
hostapd you could just try "ip addr add 192.168.1.51/24 brd 
192.168.1.255 dev waln0" to readd the IP.