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Old 1st January 2010
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Cool, i actually got some replies for the status: no network error, it seems that the intel based wifi adaptors do NOT support hostap mode, i have an atheros based pcmcia that i actually got "active" now i can see it on my wifi scans.

I actually REMOVED the "mode 11g" and "chan 11" from the hostname.ath0 file and status is ACTIVE ....

$ more /etc/hostname.ath0
inet 192.168.10.254 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect mediaopt hostap nwid wifi nwkey stupidpass

$ ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX ,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:0d:88:92:16:16
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect hostap (autoselect mode 11b hostap)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid wifi chan 11 bssid 00:0d:88:92:16:16 nwkey 0x73747570696470617373000000
inet6 fe80::20d:88ff:fe92:1616%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet 192.168.10.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255

Update: WOW, so i get it showing me its available but i cannot connect to the wifi network ... yay. As soon as i enter the password to connect (which it fails) i get the following in my /var/log/mesages file, although it is an older chipset (and well supported?) im going to have to pause this project for now.

Jan 1 09:53:48 computer /bsd: ar5k_ar5212_nic_wakeup: failed to resume the AR5212 (again)
Jan 1 09:53:48 computer /bsd: ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3633410968

P.S. I did not mean to sidetrack or hijack your thread kinda almost turned out that way though ...
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Last edited by There0; 1st January 2010 at 04:07 PM.
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