Comments on: Dlink DWA-110 + Ubuntu 8.10 = Happy Customer

By: beastie

beastie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:27:39 +0000

Thank you once more! I bought this adapter and configured it under Gentoo by this http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Ralink_RT73 manual.
It’s work great! It’s work as Access Point!
Thank you for your time!
Respect from Ukraine.

By: beastie

beastie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:53:01 +0000

That’s great! Thank you for your answers. Today I will buy this adapter!

By: agentk

agentk — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:36:41 +0000

Not a prob.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Frequency:2.447 GHz Tx-Power=12 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

By: beastie

beastie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:30:22 +0000

Thanks for quick reply. Can you paste here output of “iwconfig”, when hostapd started?

By: agentk

agentk — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:50:39 +0000

Looks like your good to go. Here is the output I get from hostapd:

~$ sudo hostapd -d /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf ctrl_interface_group=0 Opening raw packet socket for ifindex 1735780752 BSS count 1, BSSID mask ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (0 bits) SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=21 enc_capa=0xf nl80211: Added 802.11b mode based on 802.11g information RATE[0] rate=10 flags=0x2 RATE[1] rate=20 flags=0x6 RATE[2] rate=55 flags=0x4 RATE[3] rate=110 flags=0x4 Passive scanning not supported Flushing old station entries Deauthenticate all stations Mode: IEEE 802.11b Channel: 8 Frequency: 2447 MHz Using interface wlan1 with hwaddr 00:22:b0:07:3c:ce and ssid 'test' wlan1: Setup of interface done. MGMT (TX callback) ACK MGMT (TX callback) ACK mgmt::proberesp cb ^CSignal 2 received - terminating Flushing old station entries Deauthenticate all stations ~$

My hostapd.conf file for what it’s worth:

interface=wlan1 driver=nl80211 logger_syslog=-1 logger_syslog_level=2 logger_stdout=-1 logger_stdout_level=2 dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=0 ssid=test hw_mode=b channel=8 beacon_int=100 dtim_period=2 max_num_sta=255 rts_threshold=2347 fragm_threshold=2346 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=3 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wme_enabled=1 wme_ac_bk_cwmin=4 wme_ac_bk_cwmax=10 wme_ac_bk_aifs=7 wme_ac_bk_txop_limit=0 wme_ac_bk_acm=0 wme_ac_be_aifs=3 wme_ac_be_cwmin=4 wme_ac_be_cwmax=10 wme_ac_be_txop_limit=0 wme_ac_be_acm=0 wme_ac_vi_aifs=2 wme_ac_vi_cwmin=3 wme_ac_vi_cwmax=4 wme_ac_vi_txop_limit=94 wme_ac_vi_acm=0 wme_ac_vo_aifs=2 wme_ac_vo_cwmin=2 wme_ac_vo_cwmax=3 wme_ac_vo_txop_limit=47 wme_ac_vo_acm=0 eapol_key_index_workaround=0 eap_server=0 own_ip_addr=127.0.0.1