10:25 a.m.
hi
does anybody know what hardware and configuraion-steps are needed to get
a fedora-pc working as WLAN access-point with WPA/WPA2
google shows me a lot of half-baken instructions which seems to be
mostly outdated for 2.6.41 / 3.0.x or missing wpa/ssid completly
since i think a bridge-script is not enough to specify SSID/WPA-key
and what cards are currently out-of-the-box supported and if they
call support ap-mode is also not clear for me this time
this two cards are available at my local hardware-dealer but how
to find out if supported before buy and as said how to configure
on fedora?
http://www.ditech.at/artikel/WDNK7/Wireless_PCI_Adapter_Rangebooster_D-LI...
http://www.ditech.at/artikel/WSNK12/Wireless_PCI_Adapter_LINKSYS_WMP600N_...
10:44 a.m.
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:25:16 +0100
Reindl Harald wrote:
hi
does anybody know what hardware and configuraion-steps are needed to get
a fedora-pc working as WLAN access-point with WPA/WPA2
Good luck - you'll need it :-).
http://linuxwireless.org/ has some tables of devices that have
AP support, but they tend to list things like chipsets, which
are difficult if not impossible to correlate with products
you can buy.
I have a little wireless USB dongle I got to sort-of work, but
I have to try plugging it in and initializing the software
two or three times before it actually works. You can find
my saga here:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html
One thing I found with the USB dongle was that I had to
disable NetworkManager, or it would try and grab the wlan
interface and set it up as a client.
11:08 a.m.
Am 26.11.2011 17:44, schrieb Tom Horsley:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:25:16 +0100
Reindl Harald wrote:
> hi
>
> does anybody know what hardware and configuraion-steps are needed to get
> a fedora-pc working as WLAN access-point with WPA/WPA2
Good luck - you'll need it :-).
thank you :-)
http://linuxwireless.org/ has some tables of devices that have
AP support, but they tend to list things like chipsets, which
are difficult if not impossible to correlate with products
you can buy.
that is exactly my problem
if someone can call a buyable product which is out of the box
supported from current fedora-kernels and supports G/N because
mit printer in the kitchen supports only G with WPA there will
be a way to buy this thing somewhere
I have a little wireless USB dongle I got to sort-of work, but
I have to try plugging it in and initializing the software
two or three times before it actually works. You can find
my saga here:
http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html
maybe the
sub-thing makes here more troubles as usually
but what can i say since i have never installed such a setup
i would generally pefer a pci-card, here a 3 slots free
and the cards with three antennas are looking fine
what i found some minutes ago:
http://old.tuxorials.de/linux-tipps/allgemeingueltig/52-wlan-accesspoint-...
this sounds quite easy and only a good wlan-card is the missing piece
and some iptables-stuff, but iptables is not really difficult for me
One thing I found with the USB dongle was that I had to
disable NetworkManager, or it would try and grab the wlan
interface and set it up as a client.
well, this is not the problem, i never use networkmanager
the machine has two GBE-network-cards
one is the public interface and additionally a vmware-bridge
for two virtual machines and the other one for the local network
a hughe ip-tables-script does routing/masquerading as also route a
permanently active openvpn-connection and my vmware-nat into the LAN,
blocks china and russia, so this machine does all i need perfectly and
that is why i want to replace the "old" hardware-wlan-router with a
8-port-switch lying around here and finally have my whole IT in one box
if there is fire take it and run, sip-phone, keyboard and screen you can
buy everywhere later :-)
speaking about a brand new Core(TM) i7-2600 with 16 GB RAM
and 4x2 TB as RAID10 there should be no need for additional
hardware the next years :-)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 3C:D9:2B:65:95:9F
inet Adresse:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:223032 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:195107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:41146088 (39.2 MiB) TX bytes:70225632 (66.9 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Speicher:fe700000-fe720000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:50:8D:B5:CC:DE
inet Adresse:84.113.45.179 Bcast:84.113.45.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:27454880 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14550464 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:24185678885 (22.5 GiB) TX bytes:3678721888 (3.4 GiB)
Interrupt:16 Speicher:fe6c0000-fe6e0000
lo Link encap:Lokale Schleife
inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8590537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8590537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
RX bytes:7682947490 (7.1 GiB) TX bytes:7682947490 (7.1 GiB)
tap0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse A2:EB:CE:2F:48:A8
inet Adresse:10.0.0.241 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:707920 errors:0 dropped:19384 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:748660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:100
RX bytes:242962206 (231.7 MiB) TX bytes:65362520 (62.3 MiB)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet Adresse:192.168.196.1 Bcast:192.168.196.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:651835 errors:0 dropped:36 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:582388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:
3:23 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 18:08:43 +0100,
Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
if someone can call a buyable product which is out of the box
supported from current fedora-kernels and supports G/N because
mit printer in the kitchen supports only G with WPA there will
be a way to buy this thing somewhere
If you are looking at buying hardware for this, why not consider buying
a wireless router and put openwrt on it? It will initially cost a bit
more than just buying a dongle, but you'll probably make that back in
power savings.
3:32 p.m.
Am 26.11.2011 22:23, schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 18:08:43 +0100,
Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> if someone can call a buyable product which is out of the box
> supported from current fedora-kernels and supports G/N because
> mit printer in the kitchen supports only G with WPA there will
> be a way to buy this thing somewhere
If you are looking at buying hardware for this, why not consider buying
a wireless router and put openwrt on it? It will initially cost a bit
more than just buying a dongle, but you'll probably make that back in
power savings.
because it does not interest me
i am having here a wireless router
i want do replace htis device for several reasons
a) all this crap has only 4 ports
b) the homeserver is running 365/24
so i want to get rid of an additional device
so using the homeserver as Ap is power-saving because currently
if need a wireless-router AND a switch additionally to the
always-on-server instead having only a power-savong switch
and the machine
12:51 p.m.
Am 26.11.2011 17:44, schrieb Tom Horsley:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:25:16 +0100
Reindl Harald wrote:
> hi
>
> does anybody know what hardware and configuraion-steps are needed to get
> a fedora-pc working as WLAN access-point with WPA/WPA2
Good luck - you'll need it :-)
not really, with the right hardware it is easier than ever thought
my main problem was o find the right hardware and price does not matter
here because you will always buy headache while save money
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=549
___________________________________________________
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/hostapd.service
[Unit]
Description=Wireless-AP
After=network.target network-wlan-bridge.service
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/hostapd -B /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/network-wlan-bridge.service
[Unit]
Description=Wireless-AP-Bridge
After=network.service
Before=dhcpd.service network-wlan-bridge.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/wlan-bridge.sh start
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
___________________________________________________
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/wlan-bridge.sh
#!/bin/bash
br="br0"
eth="eth0"
eth_ip="192.168.1.2"
eth_netmask="255.255.255.0"
eth_broadcast="192.168.1.255"
start_bridge () {
ifconfig $eth 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addbr $br
brctl addif $br $eth
ifconfig $br $eth_ip netmask $eth_netmask broadcast $eth_broadcast up
}
stop_bridge () {
ifconfig $br down
brctl delbr $br
ifconfig $eth $eth_ip netmask $eth_netmask broadcast $eth_broadcast up
}
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting Bridge"
start_bridge
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping Bridge"
stop_bridge
;;
restart)
stop_bridge
sleep 1
start_bridge
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
___________________________________________________
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
# default settings
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
macaddr_acl=1
accept_mac_file=/etc/hostapd/accept
# login-data
ssid=rhsoft-hardened
wpa_passphrase=*******************
# wpa2-only support
wpa=2
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
# local configuration
interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
driver=nl80211
hw_mode=g
ieee80211n=1
wme_enabled=1
wmm_enabled=1
channel=13
country_code=AT
# logging
# 0 = verbose debugging
# 1 = debugging
# 2 = informational messages
# 3 = notification
# 4 = warning
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=2
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