Also I've noticed that occasionally all my interfaces seem to go unresponsive. This only started happening when I inserted the NIC. I thought it was a network manager issue, but I have since removed that, so it shouldn't be causing a problem anymore.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Savage</b> <<a href="mailto:silentkeystroke@googlemail.com">silentkeystroke@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is the hostapd.conf file<br><br><br>interface=ath0<br>driver=madwifi<br>logger_syslog=-1<br>logger_syslog_level=2<br>logger_stdout=-1<br>logger_stdout_level=2<br>debug=0<br>dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump<br>ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
<br>ctrl_interface_group=0<br>ssid=instance89<br>hw_mode=b<br>channel=60<br>beacon_int=100<br>dtim_period=2<br>max_num_sta=255<br>rts_threshold=2347<br>fragm_threshold=2346<br>macaddr_acl=0<br>auth_algs=3<br>ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
<br>wme_enabled=1<br>wme_ac_bk_cwmin=4<br>wme_ac_bk_cwmax=10<br>wme_ac_bk_aifs=7<br>wme_ac_bk_txop_limit=0<br>wme_ac_bk_acm=0<br>wme_ac_be_aifs=3<br>wme_ac_be_cwmin=4<br>wme_ac_be_cwmax=10<br>wme_ac_be_txop_limit=0<br>wme_ac_be_acm=0
<br>wme_ac_vi_aifs=2<br>wme_ac_vi_cwmin=3<br>wme_ac_vi_cwmax=4<br>wme_ac_vi_txop_limit=94<br>wme_ac_vi_acm=0<br>wme_ac_vo_aifs=2<br>wme_ac_vo_cwmin=2<br>wme_ac_vo_cwmax=3<br>wme_ac_vo_txop_limit=47<br>wme_ac_vo_acm=0<br>
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eapol_key_index_workaround=0<br>eap_server=0<br><br>own_ip_addr=<a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">127.0.0.1</a><br><br>wpa=1<br>wpa_passphrase=<OBFUSCATED>
<br>wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK<br>wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP<br><br>=============================
<br>And now the interfaces<br><br>auto ath0<br>iface ath0 inet static<br>pre-up wlanconfig ath0 destroy || true<br>pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap<br>post-down wlanconfig ath0 destroy<br>address <a href="http://10.3.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
10.3.0.1</a><br>netmask <a href="http://255.255.0.0" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">255.255.0.0</a><br>broadcast <a href="http://10.3.255.255" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
10.3.255.255</a><br>wireless-mode master<br>wireless-essid instance89<br>up hostapd -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
<br><br><br>Please help !<div><span class="e" id="q_116d0635f7dfa245_1"><br>-- <br>Pete Savage - cbx33::silentk<br><a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PeteSavage" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Pete Savage - cbx33::silentk<br><a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PeteSavage">wiki.ubuntu.com/PeteSavage</a>