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Title: iMX233-OLinuXino-MINI-WiFi as Access Point
Post by: monotask on March 25, 2013, 06:00:29 PM

Hi all,

did anyone used it like an Access Point using hostapd?
I am going to configure it but it was very appreciate to have your suggest.

The first attempt has been this in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf:

ssid=YourWifiName
wpa_passphrase=Somepassphrase
interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
auth_algs=3
channel=7
driver=nl80211
hw_mode=g
logger_stdout=-1
logger_stdout_level=2
max_num_sta=5
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
wpa=2
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP

And this is the answer:

[root@olinuxino etc]# hostapd -ddB -P /tmp/hostapd_pid hostapd/hostapd.conf
random: Trying to read entropy from /dev/random
Configuration file: hostapd/hostapd.conf
ctrl_interface_group=0
nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
Failed to initialize driver 'nl80211'
[root@olinuxino etc]#

thank you.

Marcello

Title: Re: iMX233-OLinuXino-MINI-WiFi as Access Point
Post by: breezetrees on May 20, 2013, 01:45:07 AM

I think it's related to the issues in these links (RTL8188 chipset support):

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=25921&p=285160

also

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.jenssegers.be/

Which is a solution for the raspberry pi.

QuoteRealtek has their own version of hostapd on their website for this specific chipset.

I tried to build the source but didn't have any luck so far.

Maybe someone with better skills can update the imx233 binaries for us?

-Mike

Title: Re: iMX233-OLinuXino-MINI-WiFi as Access Point
Post by: Fadil Berisha on May 20, 2013, 03:38:21 AM

Quote from: monotask on March 25, 2013, 06:00:29 PM

The first attempt has been this in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf:
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driver=nl80211

OLinuXino-MINI-WiFi has build in Realtek 8192C. You can find detailed instructions to build kernel with wifi support for Realtek 8192C at https://github.com/koliqi/imx23-olinuxino/. There is also note for host AP support in kernel.

Title: Re: iMX233-OLinuXino-MINI-WiFi as Access Point
Post by: Evgeny Boger on May 24, 2013, 01:33:06 AM

Quote from: breezetrees on May 20, 2013, 01:45:07 AM
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.jenssegers.be/

Which is a solution for the raspberry pi.

QuoteRealtek has their own version of hostapd on their website for this specific chipset.
I tried to build the source but didn't have any luck so far.

Maybe someone with better skills can update the imx233 binaries for us?

-Mike

I had no problems compiling it. Here is the deb package for Debian Squeeze: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l19sdz1w1kao4fz/hostapd_1.1-rtl8188_armel.deb

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