plz help to install hostap

[Jay Strauss]

did you start wpa_supplicant? Like:

wpa_supplicant -d -Dhostap -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

before you ifup'd wlan0

On 8/13/05, Alric Aneron <aluminum3458 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I installed hostap.  when I go to enable wlan0 (ifup
> wlan0), it gives me this:
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
> then I did iwconfig wlan0 essid mnet (mnet is my
> essid), and I couldn't connect to my network becuase
> when I typed in dhclient, it just kept going like this
> (posted at the end of this message)
> 
> Please help me to get this thing to work 
> 
> (eth1 is my wired network card).
> # dhclient
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
> Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit
> http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> 
> wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
> /sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for wifi0 not
> found. Continuing with defaults.
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line
> 51: wifi0: No such file or directory
> wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
> Listening on LPF/wifi0/
> Sending on   LPF/wifi0/
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:07:ca:01:b5:13
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:07:ca:01:b5:13
> Listening on LPF/eth1/00:40:ca:c6:be:71
> Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:40:ca:c6:be:71
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 3
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 3
> DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 7
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 3
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 8
> DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 9
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 14
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on wifi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 15
> 
> 
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