From: Jason Boxman (jasonb_at_edseek.com)
Date: 2002-07-07 07:00:55 UTC
On Sunday 07 July 2002 02:03 am, you wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I seem to be having no end of problem with installing the hostap driver for
> my Linksys WMP11 The driver is failing when on the last stage on the
> install process...
<snip configs>
> [root_at_wifi prism2-2002-05-19]# modprobe hostap_pci.o
> modprobe: Can't locate module hostap_pci.o
>
> Can anyone offer any advice ?
You probably figured this one out already, but from the modprobe man page:
" Note: Module names must not contain paths (no '/'), nor
may they contain the trailing '.o'. For example,
slip is a valid module name for modprobe,
/lib/modules/2.2.19/net/slip and slip.o are
invalid. This applies to the command line and to
entries in the config.
Try "modprobe hostap_pci" and see what happens.
I also have a PCI WMP11 and it works great, so I can assure you that this will work well for you.
Afterwards, you might do
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.1 (at least, wlan0 is my interface)
iwconfig wlan0 essid test
iwconfig wlan0 mode Master
iwconfig wlan0 channel 4 (or any)
Then, have fun.
(Shameless plug: I have some other information about WLAN stuff and Host AP
in my Linux wireless articles
http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles.shtml </endplug>)