Hi! I did a lot of research trying to find a suitable WLAN card that would work with Linux, and I eventually found a D-Link I thought would work.
The card works fine in standard mode using the ath5k driver, but was trying to get it to function as an access point using hostapd. I just read that the ath5k not yet supports ap-mode. I've also tried removing ath5k and using the older MadWifi driver, but that didn't work either (I installed the Ubuntu linux-restricted-modules package and rebooted, but the WLAN card isn't being detected).
Is there any way to do this? It's an AR5001X+ chip.
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Ok, I think I'm getting somewhere ... Apparently I had to do following:
root@delta:~# ifconfig ath0 down
root@delta:~# wlanconfig ath0 destroy
root@delta:~# wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
After testing hostapd for the first time, I could see the SSID of the Ubuntu AP on my Windows laptop.
I'm not sure if I even need hostapd, I'll need to try without it, but I got my wireless card working in AP-mode using following commands:
root@delta:~# apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-2
root@delta:~# modprobe ath_pci
root@delta:~# modprobe ath_hal
root@delta:~# echo 'blacklist ath5k' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
root@delta:~# shutdown -r now
root@delta:~# ifconfig ath0 down
root@delta:~# wlanconfig ath0 destroy
root@delta:~# wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
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by: julianmatzPosted on 2009-04-12 at 22:09:26ID: 24128057
Ok, I managed to install the MadWifi driver on m second try. I should have installed [linux-restricted-modules-
root@delta:~# modprobe ath_pci
root@delta:~# modprobe ath_hal
Now my wireless card is working using the madwifi driver, however I still cannot change the card to master mode:-
root@delta:~# iwconfig ath0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.