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Re: Wireless AP setup: RTL8188CUS

I missed the first part of this thread. Which chip does your wifi device contain?
Your driver specification below doesn't look right. And bridging isn't necessary to set up an AP on one NIC and access to the internet from that via the second NIC. 

On 03/13/2014 08:31 PM Selim T. Erdogan wrote:

Csanyi Pal,  2.03.2014:


However, I'm still trying to set this to work. I'm trying to test
hostapd by using the file hostapd-minimal.conf:
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=test
channel=1
bridge=br0
<end of file>

and when I run the following command:

csanyipal@b2:~$ sudo hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd-minimal.conf
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd-minimal.conf
rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device
Could not set interface mon.wlan0 flags: No such device
nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode
nl80211 driver initialization failed.


Can you check whether your device is capable of being put into AP mode?
(Some devices don't support it, as far as I know.)  I don't remember the
exact command, but you should be able to do it using iw or iwconfig.



but does'n lose the ssh connection anymore with Bubba Two. :)

Now I have the followings in my interfaces file:
auto lo br0
iface lo inet loopback

# Internet on eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

# wifi on wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual

# Bridge setup
# for dhcp address
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0 wlan0

# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
# I want to remain my wired LAN
# LAN on eth1
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet static
     address 192.168.10.1
     netmask 255.255.255.0
     network 192.168.10.0
     broadcast 192.168.10.255
     gateway 192.168.10.1
     dns-nameservers 192.168.10.1
     dns-search localdomain
<end of file>

With this setup I can't only reach the Internet, but can to ssh into
Bubba Two.


Several questions, for clarification:

You ssh from your sid desktop into the Bubba Two, right?
Do you define a static IP on your sid desktop for this?

It's the desktop that can't reach the Internet, right?
Once you ssh into the Bubba Two, can you reach the Internet on the
command line of the Bubba Two?
Were you able to reach the Internet from you desktop, going through the
Bubba Two, before attempting to se up the AP?  (If not, I think you
should try to achieve that first, before confusing things further
with the AP setup)

For the AP, the diagram you sent in earlier messages showed it being
attached to eth0.  Is that correct?  I would have thought it should be
attached to your LAN (thus to eth0).
Do you plan to define static IP addresses on the wireless devices you'll
use with your AP, or are you planning on using dhcp?

Selim



The command sudo ifconfig gives to me the followings:
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:02:00:07:3c
           inet addr:95.85.167.81  Bcast:95.85.167.255
           Mask:255.255.252.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::222:2ff:fe00:73c/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:7577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:360740 (352.2 KiB)  TX bytes:8581 (8.3 KiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:02:00:07:3c
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:7577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:588072 (574.2 KiB)  TX bytes:8047 (7.8 KiB)
           Base address:0x8000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:02:00:07:3d
           inet addr:192.168.10.1  Bcast:192.168.10.255
           Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::222:2ff:fe00:73d/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:3116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:4157 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:318666 (311.1 KiB)  TX bytes:343364 (335.3 KiB)
           Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:2524 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:2524 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:215081 (210.0 KiB)  TX bytes:215081 (210.0 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:81:92:0e
           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


How can I setup my home network so I can use wifi AP and the eth1 LAN at
same time?

What can I do further to get this works?
Any advices will be appreciated!
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