[Gllug] Bridge problems (Ubuntu)

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, June 29, 2011 3:47 pm, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Tue, June 28, 2011 9:54 pm, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> I know I can get this to work - because it was working for well over a
> week, but I just cannot replicate whatever it took to get it to work now.
>
> brctl showstp br0 reports it as forwarding packets and the lights blink in
> the appropriate way on the card itself but no device will associate with
> it.
>
>
Well, I got it back - not quite sure how. Changed the SSID so I could see
if the card was really transmitting and that may have done it. My
neighbours may be surprised to see a network with a name that expresses my
frustration at the moment I set it up though :)

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