[TriLUG] hostap help?

[Cristobal Palmer]

This one is a head-scratcher for me. Maybe somebody can see my slip-up
straightaway

I've got:

0000:00:0a.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5
Wavelan chipset (rev 01)

and I want hostap (orinoco was buggy)

so I (on a kubuntu box):

sudo apt-get hostap-source
cd /usr/src/modules/hostap-source
sudo ./debian/rules binary-modules KSRC=/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.12
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i hostap-modules-2.6.12_0.4.1-1_i386.deb

uname -r == 2.6.12-9-k7 (in case you were wondering)

sudo depmod -ae
sudo modprobe hostap

/etc/network/interfaces has this stanza:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid  soymilk latte
wireless-key    wireless-key    hu:zz:ah:my:ke:yi:sl:on:gi:sh

then I try to ifup wlan0 and get:

Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    invalid argument "wireless-key".
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 801
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 801
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.

And yes, it should be wlan0. I read the README (
http://hostap.epitest.fi/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/hostap/README?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain),
which lists wlan0 as the default. Even so, I tried re-editing
/etc/network/interfaces with all sorts of interface names to no avail.

Hostap works fine on my laptop (integrated prism2.5). What gives?

Many thanks in advance,
CMP

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Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student
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