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Thimios Dimopulos | 26 Feb 11:29
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Re: WiFiAdmin wlan0 wireless status and wireless setting issues

Hello,

You are probably doing nothing wrong. I haven't tested wifiadmin with 
such a new hostap driver.  I have just installed the new driver on my 
ap, but wifiadmin seems to work fine, apart for the fake wifi 
interfaces. I 'll work on it tonight, wifiadmin needs some minor 
changes. I ll post back when i have more news. Thank you for pointing 
out the problem.

Drag0n wrote:

>Hello,
>
>	I am trying to get wifiadmin to work with my setup.
>I am running slackware 10.1 with kernel version 2.6.10. 
>I am using hostap-driver version 0.3.7. 
>I am running firmware versions PRI=1.1.1 STA=1.7.4
>on a linksys WMP11 netcard. 
>I have the web server running and working fine. 
>The wifiadmin seems to work for the most part, but when i try to look at
>associated mac's it reports none are currently associated. but the odd
>part is the only listed tabs for wireless interfaces are wifi0 and
>wlan0ap, wlan0 is only listed under ethernet settings. The same thing
>shows up under wireless security, but i get errors
>about /proc/net/hostap/wifi0/ap_control is missing. am I missing
>something simple or fundimental? do you need more info? please let me
>know what I may be doing wrong.
>
>
>Drag0n
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Drag0n | 26 Feb 20:47

Re: WiFiAdmin wlan0 wireless status and wireless setting issues

The odd thing is, i dont see the wlan0 in the wireless pages. it shows
up on the ethernet page, any idea what may be different?

Drag0n

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 12:29 +0200, Thimios Dimopulos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> You are probably doing nothing wrong. I haven't tested wifiadmin with 
> such a new hostap driver.  I have just installed the new driver on my 
> ap, but wifiadmin seems to work fine, apart for the fake wifi 
> interfaces. I 'll work on it tonight, wifiadmin needs some minor 
> changes. I ll post back when i have more news. Thank you for pointing 
> out the problem.
> 
> 
> Drag0n wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >	I am trying to get wifiadmin to work with my setup.
> >I am running slackware 10.1 with kernel version 2.6.10. 
> >I am using hostap-driver version 0.3.7. 
> >I am running firmware versions PRI=1.1.1 STA=1.7.4
> >on a linksys WMP11 netcard. 
> >I have the web server running and working fine. 
> >The wifiadmin seems to work for the most part, but when i try to look at
> >associated mac's it reports none are currently associated. but the odd
> >part is the only listed tabs for wireless interfaces are wifi0 and
> >wlan0ap, wlan0 is only listed under ethernet settings. The same thing
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Thimios Dimopulos | 27 Feb 00:08
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Re: WiFiAdmin wlan0 wireless status and wireless setting issues

Here is what i found.

About the fake wifi interface names.
There is a little bug with wifiadmin 0.0.4 and newest hostap driver. It 
exposes some fake interface names, wifiX, that do no harm, but look 
ugly. Here:

http://wifiadmin.sourceforge.net/no-wifi.patch

is a patch against wifiadmin-0.0.4 that fixes the problem. To apply it, 
download it to a convenient path, cd to wifiadmin-0.0.4 directory, and 
run: patch -p1 < path-to-the-patch/no-wifi.patch. This will also fix the 
proc/net/hostap/wifi0/ap_control missing issue.

About the wlan0 tab missing from your wireless status page, could you 
post your iwconfig output, and your ls -lhR /proc/net/hostap output?

Drag0n wrote:

>The odd thing is, i dont see the wlan0 in the wireless pages. it shows
>up on the ethernet page, any idea what may be different?
>
>Drag0n
>
>On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 12:29 +0200, Thimios Dimopulos wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>You are probably doing nothing wrong. I haven't tested wifiadmin with
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Drag0n | 27 Feb 01:11

Re: WiFiAdmin wlan0 wireless status and wireless setting issues

Ok, that removed the wifi0 from the pages, but i still have a wlan0ap,
no biggie, i can just ignore it. I am attaching the info you requested
reguarding the system output.

Drag0n

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 01:08 +0200, Thimios Dimopulos wrote:
> Here is what i found.
> 
> About the fake wifi interface names.
> There is a little bug with wifiadmin 0.0.4 and newest hostap driver. It 
> exposes some fake interface names, wifiX, that do no harm, but look 
> ugly. Here:
> 
> http://wifiadmin.sourceforge.net/no-wifi.patch
> 
> is a patch against wifiadmin-0.0.4 that fixes the problem. To apply it, 
> download it to a convenient path, cd to wifiadmin-0.0.4 directory, and 
> run: patch -p1 < path-to-the-patch/no-wifi.patch. This will also fix the 
> proc/net/hostap/wifi0/ap_control missing issue.
> 
> About the wlan0 tab missing from your wireless status page, could you 
> post your iwconfig output, and your ls -lhR /proc/net/hostap output?
> 
> 
> Drag0n wrote:
> 
> >The odd thing is, i dont see the wlan0 in the wireless pages. it shows
> >up on the ethernet page, any idea what may be different?
> >
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Thimios Dimopulos | 27 Feb 10:35
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Re: WiFiAdmin wlan0 wireless status and wireless setting issues

To figure out what the problem is, i also installed the latest hostap 
driver. The way it reports associated clients, hasn't changed, the mac 
addresses of the asssociated clients, show up on /proc/net/hostap/wlanX 
as files. But your output has no such files, are you sure you have 
associated clients (or maybe the output you sent was taken at a time you 
had no associated clients)? Wifiadmin reads those files to report 
information about clients. Here is what i see on my ap:

/proc/net/hostap/wlan0:
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 00:09:5b:11:c8:b5
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 00:0d:88:ad:67:07
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 00:0d:88:b7:cf:af
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 00:80:c8:af:b8:53
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 ap
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 ap_control
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 ap_debug
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 aux_dump
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 bss_list
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 crypt
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 debug
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 pda
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 scan_results
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 stats
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 27 11:16 wds

Your wlan0ap interface, is just another name for wlan0 right? Did you do 
something special to get that interface name?

It would be helpful if your slackware box had internet access and i
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