Setting up Access Point

[linux newbie]

Hi,

Any suggestions?

Thanks

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM, linux newbie <linux.newbie79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am ?running Linux on our embedded platform (Station A) with PXA255 chip.
>
> * I have 2 wireless interfaces i.e eth1 (cisco card) and wlan0 (Ralink
> chipset card) and they are working.
> * using "brctl" utility, I created the bridge br0
> * I enabled Hostapd on wlan0 interface.
> * eth1 connects to external Access Point using WPA and I am using
> wpa_supplicant to do this task.
> ? ?wpa_supplicant -Dwext -i eth1 -b br0 -c /tmp/wpasup.conf -B
> * added the interfaces eth1 & wlan0 to br0
> * brctl setfd br0 0
> * ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up
> * ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 up
> * ifconfig br0 192.168.108.96 up
>
>
> From my PC (IP 192.168.108.121), I can able to ping br0 interface and
> vice-versa.
>
> Now I have another wireless hand held station B (192.168.108.99)
> which associates to SSID of wlan0 of Station A. From this station B I
> can able to ping br0 of Station A and vice-versa.
>
> But I couldn't able to ping my PC.
>
> Can anyone let me know, if I made any mistake in configuring? Below is
> my hostapd.conf.
>
> interface=wlan0
> driver=nl80211
> ssid=TEST_HOSTAPD
> channel=11
>
> hw_mode=g
> auth_algs=1
> wpa=1
> wpa_passphrase=testing1234
> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> wpa_pairwise=TKIP
>
> bridge=br0
>
> Thanks
>