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I followed the directions to the letter and ran in to some problems. I hope that someone out there can help me with this.




Problem 1 - When I tried to run hostapd (# /etc/init.d/hostapd start) I received the wonderful : FAILED!. I boosted the debug to 4 and still have the same result.




Problem 2 - I went and removed hostapd to see if I could get the box to run as a WAP in its simpliest form, but I couldn't pull a page. I could connect to the WAP, but nothing after that.




I added this to the /etc/network/interfaces

auto ath0 br0



iface ath0 inet manual

        pre-up wlanconfig ath0 destroy

        pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap

        post-down wlanconfig ath0 destroy

        wireless-mode master



iface br0 inet manual

        bridge_ports eth0 ath0

Manuall configured essid : ifconfig ath0 essid ####




I hope that someone can shed some insight in to this problem.




Thanks.




-Pete




Sys: Pentium 2 366

256MB RAM

20GB IDE HDD

Debian 4.0 Etch w/ KDE

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