[Prism54-devel] RE: Strange problem with wds in prism54

[Sergio Ammirata]

I just download today's SVN and compiled it. Same results.

Could it have something to do with the device not being able to put itself
in promiscuous mode?

Sergio

-----Original Message-----
From: Luis R. Rodriguez [mailto:mcgrof at ruslug.rutgers.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:17 PM
To: Sergio Ammirata
Cc: 'Denis Vlasenko'; 'Jean-Baptiste Note'; 'Jouni Malinen';
prism54-devel at prism54.org
Subject: Re: Strange problem with wds in prism54

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:34:02PM -0400, Sergio Ammirata wrote:
> I am using prism54 cvs 2005-03-10 with kernel 2.6.11.6 . 
> 
> I enabled wds support in the makefile but left hostapd support out.
> 
> The driver works well. I created a bridge device br0 and put the wireless
> ethx on it. I have a dhcp server installed and it assigns the addresses
> correctly to my wireless clients through the br0 device.
> 
> 1)	When I set "iwpriv ethx setwds 1", the interface looses the ability
> to dispatch dhcp addresses. I can still connect to the wireless box if I
> assign a static ip address on the client.
> 
> 2)	When I add a wds entry with "iwpriv ethx wdsadd xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"
> and add that interface to the bridge, ip connectivity no longer works. I
can
> establish a wireless link, but cannot even ping the wireless interface
once
> I am connected
> 
> 3)	When I execute "iwpriv ethx setwds 0" everything goes back to
> normal.
> 
> Has somebody experienced this? Any help would be appreciated.

I think you're the first to test WDS on prism54 :) Have  you tried 
with the latest source?

	Luis

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