AR5213 card with madwifi-bsd, hostapd-0.4.1,wpa_supplicant-0.4.1

[and hansen]

Is your wlan working before you start hostapd and
wpa_supplicant ?
with a open configuration ?

You also need a very resent version of
wireless tools to use this


--- Victor Yeo wrote:

> an update here:
> 
> Using wpa_suplicant in one target device in station
> mode,
> and hostapd in another target device in AP bridging
> mode,
> they can connect and ping each other. So i have done
> WPA-PSK in Bridging
> mode, i guess.
> 
> however, other types of wlan adapter (eg. those in
> centrino notebook) can't
> connect to hostapd device in WPA-PSK mode. May i
> know does anyone try the
> hostapd WPA-PSK connection with a centrino notebook
> succeesfully??
> 
> Many Thanks.
> 
> victor
> 
> 


> 
> 
> after i disable bridging in AP, i can use
> wpa_supplicant to connect to
> hostapd, by WPA-PSK.
> 
> however, when i enable bridging in AP, i can never
> use wpa_supplicant to
> connect to hostapd, i have added
> bridge=br0
> to hostapd.conf. But it won't work no matter how
> hard i tried.
> 
> I see the mailing list, some people have
> successfully run WPA-PSK on a
> bridge, am i missing some extra settings here?
> 
> 
> many thanks.
> 
> victor