[Gllug] Bridge problems (Ubuntu)

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tue, June 28, 2011 9:35 pm, John Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:29:31PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> <snip>
>> Cheers. This appears to work. I am only saying appears because the
>> wireless bit seems to be having some difficulty but I don't think that
>> is
>> necessarily the bidge.
>>
>> I had some problems with my commodity router, but once I fixed them and
>> ensured br0 was assigned the IP previously given to eth0 it worked.
>>
>> Anybody a hostap guru? It seems to be up - but I cannot associate with
>> it.
>> Do I need something in /etc/network/interfaces ?
>
> The first page found on a Google search of "hostapd" and "bridge"
> is this page:
>      http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd
>
> Which suggests that you need to tell hostapd that it is part of
> a bridge by adding "bridge=br0".
>
>

Yes, I have that already: this is hostapd.conf (without the key info)

interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
driver=hostap
macaddr_acl=0
ignore_broadcast_ssid=-1
logger_syslog=17
country_code=gb
ieee80211d=1
logger_syslog_level=0
hw_mode=b
ssid=Consume
channel=7
wpa=0
auth_algs=1



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