Seeting up access point - can detect signal

[Madhusudan Singh]

Hi
    Thanks to all, especially Pavel for responding.

    I have a Netgear MA311 PCI card installed and properly recognized on 
my desktop machine. I compiled hostap-0.0.4 and also the hostapd daemon 
(my /etc/hostapd.conf is at the end of this email).
    I am trying to set up this card as an Access Point.

    My client is a properly configured and working Netgear MA401 PCMCIA 
card in my notebook. (see 
http;//www.eecs.umich.edu/~chhabra/netgearwireless.html ).

    I get the following messages on console on the DHCP server :

Received 30 bytes management frame
MGMT
mgmt::auth
authentication: STA=cl:cl:cl:cl:cl:cl auth_alg=0 auth_transaction=1 
status_code=0 wep=0
Unsupported authentication algorithm (0)
authentication reply: STA=cl:cl:cl:cl:cl:cl auth_alg=0 
auth_transaction=2 resp=13

cl:cl:cl:cl:cl:cl are the hex bits of the correct MAC address of my 
client Netgear card. (obfuscated here for security).

    On the client, my wireless link monitor shows a signal strength of 
about 89 % and /sbin/iwconfig indicates the correct MAC address (I hope 
its not my neighbour's access point but the essid is "something" on both 
client and server and that gives me some confidence !) in the Access 
Point o/p. That means that it is picking up the signal from my desktop.  
But I can't seem to use ssh or anything like that.

    What could be wrong ? A misconfiguration of the DHCP server ? (I am 
using two different subnets - one (192.168.0.1/24) for the crossover 
cable and the other (10.0.0.1/24) for the wireless).)
    One ancillary question - when I use WEP, what extra stuff do I need 
to do for the client ?

Any hints would be welcome.

Thanks,

MS.

-----------/etc/hostapd.conf---------------------------------

interface=wlan0
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=2
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=2
debug=2
dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
daemonize=1
ssid=something
macaddr_acl=1
auth_algs=0
minimal_eap=0
eap_message=hello
wep_key_len_broadcast=13
eapol_key_index_workaround=0
own_ip_addr=127.0.0.1 (should this be 10.0.0.1 ??)

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cl:cl:cl:cl:cl:cl is listed in /etc/hostapd.allow