[Olsr-users] Favorite Madwifi drivers, patches and settings for Adhoc?

[Outback Dingo]

Ok I see the difference... we are using olsr-secure and only encryption on
the public AP with hostapd-mini

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Sean <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> Interesting. You may want to make sure that it is actually doing
> encryption. If it is doing encryption I am very curious how you have gotten
> it to work.
>
> Today I loaded openwrt-x86 on a spare laptop I had. It has a Compex WLM54G
> Atheros card in it.
>
> I got it all set up and working without encryption. Then in the luci gui I
> set encryption to WPA-PSK. Rebooted, and looking at the process list there
> is no wpa_supplicant or hostapd. Also there is no encryption key when I ran
> iwconfig. It connects to an open adhoc node. Digging further, it looks like
> /lib/wifi/madwifi.sh will only set up encryption for ap, wpa, and sta modes.
> Also, /lib/wifi/wpa_supplicant.sh seems to not have the necessary
> key-mgmt=WPA-NONE needed for adhoc. Below is my output.
>
> (spam-protected):~# cat /etc/config/wireless
>
> config 'wifi-device' 'wifi0'
>       option 'type' 'atheros'
>       option 'channel' '1'
>       option 'hwmode' '11g'
>       option 'txpower' '18'
>       option 'diversity' '0'
>
> config 'wifi-iface'
>       option 'device' 'wifi0'
>       option 'network' 'lan'
>       option 'ssid' 'AIR802'
>       option 'mode' 'adhoc'
>       option 'encryption' 'psk'
>       option 'key' 'mypassword'
>
> (spam-protected):~# iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> wifi0     no wireless extensions.
>
> br-lan    no wireless extensions.
>
> ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"AIR802"  Nickname:""
>         Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: 02:80:48:7F:C8:E9
>         Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
>         Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>         Encryption key:off
>         Power Management:off
>         Link Quality=29/70  Signal level=-67 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
>         Rx invalid nwid:7  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> (spam-protected):~# ps
>  PID USER       VSZ STAT COMMAND
>   1 root       928 S    init
>   2 root         0 SW<  [kthreadd]
>   3 root         0 SW<  [ksoftirqd/0]
>   4 root         0 SW<  [events/0]
>   5 root         0 SW<  [khelper]
>  32 root         0 SW<  [kblockd/0]
>  38 root         0 SW<  [kseriod]
>  88 root         0 SW   [pdflush]
>  89 root         0 SW   [pdflush]
>  90 root         0 SW<  [kswapd0]
>  91 root         0 SW<  [aio/0]
>  182 root         0 SW<  [mtdblockd]
>  194 root         0 SW<  [kpsmoused]
>  474 root       928 S    logger -s -p 6 -t
>  475 root       928 S    init
>  476 root       932 S    /bin/ash --login
>  489 root       940 S    syslogd -C16
>  491 root       920 S    klogd
>  503 root       484 S    /sbin/hotplug2 --override --persistent
> --max-children
>  876 root       720 S    /usr/sbin/dropbear -p 22
>  881 root       924 S    /usr/sbin/httpd -p 80 -h /www -r OpenWrt
>  964 root       776 S    /usr/sbin/dropbear -p 22
>  965 root       940 R    -ash
> 1336 root       928 R    ps
>
> Sean
>
> Outback Dingo wrote:
>
>> its a 100% pure Ubiquiti network, using NS2 (Nanos), PicoStation2HPs,
>> LiteStations, RouterStation, Bullet2, Bullet2HP and Bullet5
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Sean <(spam-protected) <mailto:
>> (spam-protected)>> wrote:
>>
>>    Cool, what hardware do you use with OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09?
>>
>>    Sean
>>
>>    Outback Dingo wrote:
>>    > Odd i use 8.09 on 60+ nodes deployed with ahdemo and security...
>>    what
>>    > issues did you see, Ive not recognized any
>>    >
>>    > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Derek C <(spam-protected)
>>    <mailto:(spam-protected)>
>>    > <mailto:(spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>>> wrote:
>>    >
>>    >     Hi Sean,
>>    >
>>    >     I've had better luck with ahdemo mode (no network splits but no
>>    >     security
>>    >     either...).
>>    >
>>    >     I've had lots of problems with diversity settings with various
>>    >     hardware
>>    >     including WRAP x86/CM9 cards and Ubiquiti NS2 units -I still
>>    don't
>>    >     know
>>    >     what the right settings are really and sometimes setting
>>    diversity
>>    >     to 0
>>    >     seems to be ignored because I see the txantenna and
>>    rxantenna numbers
>>    >     jumping around anyway - it eventually seemed to work so I looked
>>    >     the other
>>    >     way :s.
>>    >
>>    >     I've settled on kamikaze 8.09_rc1 (rc2 and the new stable
>>    releases
>>    >     caused
>>    >     me a nightmare and lots of lost days with not being able to make
>>    >     one node
>>    >     ping a very nearby node so a problem with madwifi versions
>>    maybe?)
>>    >     - this
>>    >     is weird and I should really look into it a bit more.
>>    >
>>    >     Derek
>>    >
>>    >
>>    >     On Thu, March 12, 2009 11:55 pm, Sean wrote:
>>    >     > Hello,
>>    >     >
>>    >     >
>>    >     > I wanted to get some info on how people are implementing
>>    OLSR with
>>    >     > Atheros chipsets and adhoc. I have been messing around with
>>    >     settings and
>>    >     > drivers. So far I have seen some improvement with
>>    >     madwifi-hal-testing.
>>    >     >
>>    >     >
>>    >
>> http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/news/20080829/new-hal-release-for-atheros
>>    >     > -hardware
>>    >     >
>>    >     >
>>    >     > Some settings I've seen so far:
>>    >     > iwpriv ath0 mode 3                  #force 802.11g mode iwpriv
>>    >     ath0 bgscan
>>    >     > 0                #turn off background scanning iwconfig
>>    ath0 ap
>>    >     > 02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be  #force bssid to prevent network
>>    >     > splits
>>    >     >
>>    >     > disable diversity (especially if you only have one connected
>>    >     antenna)
>>    >     > sysctl -w dev.wifi0.diversity=0 sysctl -w
>>    dev.wifi0.txantenna=1
>>    >     sysctl -w
>>    >     > dev.wifi0.rxantenna=1
>>    >     >
>>    >     > or this, depending on your card sysctl -w
>>    dev.wifi0.diversity=0
>>    >     sysctl -w
>>    >     > dev.wifi0.txantenna=2 sysctl -w dev.wifi0.rxantenna=2
>>    >     >
>>    >     > Any other drivers, patches or settings?
>>    >     >
>>    >     >
>>    >     > Sean
>>    >     >
>>    >     >
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