On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:33:59 +0200
David Wetzel <dave%turbocat.de@localhost> wrote:
> does somebody use netbsd 5 (ath) as AP and uses clients like Nokia
> phones or Macs?
I am using a netbsd 4.0 system as an access point with an atheros driver:
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ssid NETAPPS apbridge
powersave off
bssid 00:15:e9:a7:e8:fd chan 1
address: 00:15:e9:a7:e8:fd
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect mode 11g hostap
status: active
inet 10.1.2.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.2.255
inet6 fe80::215:e9ff:fea7:e8fd%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> On my mac, I do have connectivity, everything is fine until the
> antenna logo still shows all bars but I cannot reach the internet.
> If I disable/enable the wlan on the mac it works again.
> The Nokia stops being able to register on SIP the only thing that
> seems to help is to restart hostapd.
My normal client machines use ubuntu linux. But visitors have connected to it
with windows laptops. My nephew uses it with his ipod touch. The wii gets
online okay. I don't think we have tried a mac but I wouldn't have expected any
problems. Haven't tried a nokia phone either.
I don't know what hostapd is. I just use ath0 as a normal network interface. I
run NAT to route traffic to my external gateway. The AP uses dhcrelay to
provide DHCP services to the wireless network.
Can you get some diagnostic information from the mac? On linux I would tail -f
/var/log/messages
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