Connecting to access point from Soekris board

[skumaran]

Hello,

I am trying to connect from a wireless client (a Atheros based wireless card on Soekris net5501 board configured in STA mode) to a wireless access point (another Atheros based wireless card on Soekris net5501 board configured in Access Point, AP mode). But I am not successful in doing the connection. These are the steps I followed.

1. I configured both the wireless points with static IP addresses with the same subnet mask(255.255.255.0). For example the client node is 192.168.1.11 and the access point node is 192.168.1.10

2. I connected the client board to a Windows PC running Hyperterminal using a null modem cable to configure the settings

3. On the zero shell prompt of the client board I used the following commands to configure the wireless node(ETH04)
ifconfig ETH04 up
iwconfig ETH04 essid “Access Point SSID” ap “AP Hardware Address”

4. I tried to ping the Access point node using ping 192.168.1.10.

But I always get that the host is not reachable. Can anyone please help me out with this issue.

Thanks
Sri Hari Kumaran

[ppalias]

What is the output of

iwconfig ETH04

[skumaran]

Please find below the output of the command

iwconfig ETH04

ETH04     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"TIG1"  Nickname:""

Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.447 GHz  Access Point: 00:02:6F:51:3C:DC

Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1

Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

Encryption key:off

Power Management:off

Link Quality=0/70  Signal level=-93 dBm  Noise level=-93 dBm

Rx invalid nwid:5262  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Here “TIG1” is the SSID of the wireless Access point I am trying to connect to and “00:02:6F:51:3C:DC” is the hardware address of the Access point device. Please let me know if I have wrongly configured something here.

Thanks,
Sri Hari Kumaran

[skumaran]

Hello,

Can anyone please help me out with this problem.

Thanks.

[ppalias]

It seems that the client is not connected on the access point. You can see that from the

Link Quality=0/70

which should have a value other than 0. Check the wireless settings, make sure there is no mac-filter, WEP,WPA,WPA2 etc…

[skumaran]

Hi,

Yes the client is not getting connected to the Access point even when I configure them properly. I have not configured any kind of encryption like WAP,WEP or WPA on either board. I have configured them as “Plaintext”. I am totally clueless as to what the problem is. I hope someone can help me to solve this.

Thanks.

[ppalias]

What have you configured as “plaintext”?

[skumaran]

Using the Wifi-manager available in Zeroshell I have configured the Security parameter of the SSID as “Plaintext”. It actually gives 4 options to choose for Access authentication and wireless traffic encryption namely

1. Plaintext
2. WPA-PSK
3. WPA-EAP
4. WEP128

Thanks,
Sri Hari

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