hostap drivers as Access Point

Captain Dondo · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 250

Can anyone provide some insight into running a Prism 3 wifi card as an
access point using hostap?

I can use the card fine in managed mode, but when I try to change it to
hostap mode, it appears to come up fine - ifconfig and iwconfig show
normal status - but no communication takes place (pings don't go thorugh
and no other traffic flows.)

I can't help but think I am missing something very, very simple - like a
setting in hostap config....

I have reflashed the card to STA firmware 1.8.4 so I shouldn't have
problems per the hostap README, but it just doesn't work.

--Yan

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