Your own wlan access point

Plugging in devices such as LAN adapters, Wi-Fi cards, printers, etc. to Arch Linux ARM.

Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby LaTristesse » Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:09 am

Great, now it works :) But how do I manage the ports because I cant access the firefly server nor the mediatomb upnp server. Allready edited the rules from shorewall without success. Any hints?
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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby pepedog » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:39 am

This is easy, edit /etc/shorewall/rules
Mine is this
ACCEPT net fw udp 80,22,10000
ACCEPT net fw tcp 80,22,10000
Just letting in http ssh and webmin, find out which port they use.
Then shorewall restart.
The wireless interface should work now with mediatomb etc.

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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby LaTristesse » Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:10 pm

Hey pepe,

there is a new kernel drive avaible for the plugbox-os. If I do a "pacman -Syu" is there still support for the wireless usb dongle?
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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby pepedog » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:52 pm

No, but the driver will be in kernel-next.
I have built from the kernel wireless git and it works fine.
Linux Arch Linux ARM install 2.6.36-rc6-wl-47755-g412d5af-dirty
It has strange modules seemingly unconnected, like led, cfg80211 etc
I could write a patch but it would be a lot of work.

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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby Norb » Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:06 pm

hi, i read the thread but i'm not sure whether the TL-WN821N of LaTristesse works only in client mode or also in AP mode. so which is it?

thanks
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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby pepedog » Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:17 pm

Yes it does, it would normally use the ath9170 module, but that is client mode only.
The next linux kernel to come will have the carl9170 as well and supports access point mode as well.

Anything that uses a p54usb, the kernel can be compiled to also make that access point too.
A thing to watch for, I bought a Netgear wn111, but it's only the version 2 that uses p54usb.

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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby LaTristesse » Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:46 pm

Are there some news on this front? I really would like to update my Arch Linux ARM install installation but I'm concerned that it looses his ability as a wlan ap. Pacman -Syu showing me "kernel26-headers-2.6.36.2-1".
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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby pepedog » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:53 pm

I wrote to Mike.last night.
Kernel 2.6.37 has the modules in staging, so no patch required, just kernel config, this is now out of rc stage.
Although this applies to carl9170, othe sticks already work and are more reliable.

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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby Norb » Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:23 pm

i got an tp-link TL-WN821N (Version 3.1) which needs ath9k_htc driver. is this stick already supported? (haven't got around to testing the new Arch Linux ARM install beta)
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Re: Your own wlan access point

Postby pepedog » Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:51 pm

Looks all good to go, drivers there, did a search for Linux ath9k access point an others have said it works

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