Hostap Driver Ath5k

Nov 07, 2015  ath5k : Atheros Communications chipsets hostap_pci hostap_plx : Debian Wiki team, bugs and config available.

User documentation for the ath5k driver is spotty. These are my working notes for them, which you hopefully will find useful. These are by no means authoritative, so.

Ath5k is a completely FOSS wireless driver for Atheros based wireless chipset versions AR5xxx in the Linux Kernel. It has evolved out of MadWiFi, OpenHAL, and the.

Jørn Christensen wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup my wireless network interface as an access point with hostapd. The interface is from Atheros Communications.

User documentation for the ath5k driver

is spotty. These are my working notes for them, which you hopefully

will find useful. These are by no means authoritative, so your

mileage may vary.

This was last updated 9 April 2009.

ath5k is contained in the mainline

Linux kernel. To get a newer version of the driver, you have the

option of either upgrading the entire kernel, or getting the wireless

compatibility package. See

I m not sure whether the wireless

compatibility package is sufficient for all purposes, or if you need

newer kernel versions for some features. See

The iw command line program is needed

to configure VAPs. It depends on the libnl library, which is intended

to replace wireless extensions.

Setting up a Monitor Interface

iw phy

phy0 interface add moni0 type monitor

I m not sure why the phy0 is used.

moni0 may be replaced by any interface name you choose. After you

create the interface, you need to enable it.

ifconfig

moni0 up

At this point, you should be able to

use the moni0 monitor interface as normal.

AP Mode

The source code may need to be patched

to enable AP mode.

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The user space application hostapd is

used. To compile, a. config file needs to be created.

Replacement for IOCTL

The user to kernel communication

provided by ioctl calls is being replaced by nl80211 and cfg80211.

nl80211

cfg80211

Code notes

Kernel starts up mac80211 first, which

starts ath5k.

Interface between mac80211 and ath5k is

defined in the struct ieee80211_ops.

Atheros Ath5k hostap Master Mode. and the athk5 driver, I used apt-get to install hostap package but I got this error: hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf.

Testing Auto Channel Selection with hostapd in ath5k Testing Auto Channel Selection with hostapd in ath9k drivers. I cloned the source of hostap from.