I bought a d-link pci wlan card. it's configured and installed on my linux box i wanted to turn it into an wirelles access point how can i ?Does the card on itself make the deal ? I wanted to make my lan gateway also an access point for my wireless laptop. Code: root@argo:~# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+ ESSID:"STA10EC04" Nickname:"acx v0.3.36" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:22 Mb/s Tx-Power=18 dBm Sensitivity=176/255 Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=84/100 Noise level=48/100 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. root@argo:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:49:D5:F9:2E inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:49ff:fed5:f92e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:23312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:24111 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:15118174 (14.4 MiB) TX bytes:12462953 (11.8 MiB) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x2400 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:FC:58:97:2C inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:fcff:fe58:972c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4745 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:760721 (742.8 KiB) TX bytes:2657368 (2.5 MiB) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:E9:10:EC:04 inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST 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) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 It's my first time on configuring wireless i know .... about wireless.Do i need an extra acess point ?is this enough to make this linuxbox also an access point ? This is the output from: How can i make the ap with name ALICE-59861934 go on wlan0 i tried with iwconfig but maybe it's the default gateway the problem.that's the route table the wlan0 gateway is 192.168.0.1 right ? If so why if i restart the network i get: Sorry but it's my first time i configure a wireless interface in a wired network !
Please i need help route table it's a mass And when i restart the network the debug output says : But in fact: The ips for wlan0 if are just momentary! I suppose 192.168.0.1 router it's the defaul gateway for wlan0 too,but it's just a guess , it's the first time i set a wireless access point.!My goal it a mixed lan wired/wireless and i suppose every interface should have it's own network , so maybe for the all lan a class "A" network will be best (10.0.0.0/8),where can i get all these infos for a mixed lan ? Yeah!Google!But does anyone knows somewhere in particular?
I'm trying to give to my linux box an another way to make clients access internet .That's why i'm trying to configure a pci wi.fi card just as any other pci ethernet card for wired machines !!!