Re: Setting up AP with hostapd

[Michael Post <michael_post@web.de>]

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Hello unknown user,

Am 28.04.15 um 18:41 schrieb csanyipal@gmail.com:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to setup my home wireless Access Point by using
> hostapd, installed as a debian package from the debian repository.
> 
> On my headless power pc box I'm running Debian Wheezy ( yet ).
> 
> My hostapd.conf is:

> 
> mon.wlan0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-E0-4C-81-92-93-00-00-00-00- 
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)
> 
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:81:92:93 inet6 addr:
> fe80::2e0:4cff:fe81:9293/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING
> MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45389 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 
> carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX
> bytes:3556665 (3.3 MiB)
> 
....

> 
> But, on my mobile phone I can't see this WiFi AP. What could be the
> problem?
> 


Normally after started hostapd the interface wlan0 should have an
valid ip address.
How looks your /etc/network/interfaces?
Did you have configured the interface with maybe an static ip address?

Greets,

Michael

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