modomobo
November 7th, 2010, 06:20 AM
I'm trying to set up a wireless access point and router using Ubuntu 10.10. My machine has an Atheros AR5001X+ PCI card, and eth0 is connected to an ADSL modem.
After literally days and days of going in circles, I'm hoping that somebody here can help get me on track. I've tried to follow the instructions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=376283
This sort of works, though I had to go through some other contortions to get the madwifi driver to finally compile on my machine.
At this point, I can see and connect to the WAP, but nothing more. When I try "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart", I get this:
* Reconfiguring network interfaces...
SIOCDELRT: No such process
Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 2701
ath0
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "testing".
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Failed to bring up ath0.The interface configuration looks like this:
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:0a:79:72:f9:7b
inet addr:172.16.1.5 Bcast:172.16.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::80a:79ff:fe72:f97b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:40 (40.0 B) TX bytes:1691 (1.6 KB)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0A-79-72-F9-7B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1788 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:358
TX packets:1277 errors:151 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
RX bytes:187918 (187.9 KB) TX bytes:100242 (100.2 KB)
Interrupt:19 My /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
provider dsl-provider eth0
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
pre-up wlanconfig ath0 destroy || true
pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
wireless-mode master
wireless-essid MyWAP
wireless channel 1
wireless-key testing
# wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXX
wireless-keymode open
address 172.16.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 172.16.1.1
Any suggestions?
I also have a second problem, which is that I want to use WebMin to manage this server, but I cannot figure out how to get the ADSL client module configured -- RP-PPPoE version 3. It seems to expect to work with pppoe-start, pppoe-stop, and pppoe-status, but when I try to run pppoe-status it says "Link is down", even though my ppp connection is actually working.
Is is possible to use the WebMin ADSL client module with Ubuntu? I spent a lot of time trying to get pppoe-start, stop, etc. working but it was a complete mess and never seemed to behave. Finally, I just put the ppp startup commands into the /etc/network/interfaces file and that worked, but now the pppoe-* commands no longer seem to function.
Any suggestions about this would also be greatly appreciated.
After literally days and days of going in circles, I'm hoping that somebody here can help get me on track. I've tried to follow the instructions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=376283
This sort of works, though I had to go through some other contortions to get the madwifi driver to finally compile on my machine.
At this point, I can see and connect to the WAP, but nothing more. When I try "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart", I get this:
* Reconfiguring network interfaces...
SIOCDELRT: No such process
Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5
ssh stop/waiting
ssh start/running, process 2701
ath0
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
invalid argument "testing".
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Failed to bring up ath0.The interface configuration looks like this:
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:0a:79:72:f9:7b
inet addr:172.16.1.5 Bcast:172.16.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::80a:79ff:fe72:f97b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:40 (40.0 B) TX bytes:1691 (1.6 KB)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0A-79-72-F9-7B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1788 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:358
TX packets:1277 errors:151 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:280
RX bytes:187918 (187.9 KB) TX bytes:100242 (100.2 KB)
Interrupt:19 My /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
provider dsl-provider eth0
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
pre-up wlanconfig ath0 destroy || true
pre-up wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
wireless-mode master
wireless-essid MyWAP
wireless channel 1
wireless-key testing
# wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXX
wireless-keymode open
address 172.16.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 172.16.1.1
Any suggestions?
I also have a second problem, which is that I want to use WebMin to manage this server, but I cannot figure out how to get the ADSL client module configured -- RP-PPPoE version 3. It seems to expect to work with pppoe-start, pppoe-stop, and pppoe-status, but when I try to run pppoe-status it says "Link is down", even though my ppp connection is actually working.
Is is possible to use the WebMin ADSL client module with Ubuntu? I spent a lot of time trying to get pppoe-start, stop, etc. working but it was a complete mess and never seemed to behave. Finally, I just put the ppp startup commands into the /etc/network/interfaces file and that worked, but now the pppoe-* commands no longer seem to function.
Any suggestions about this would also be greatly appreciated.