[Commotion-dev] OpenWRT AP not functioning

[Dan Staples]

On Wed 24 Jul 2013 02:51:58 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
> Whoops, and please disregard the sending email address from my last
> post.  Silly GMail ...
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:50 PM, CAMP Events Coordinator
> <coordinator at stlcamp.org <mailto:coordinator at stlcamp.org>> wrote:
>
>     I have working Nanostation Loco M2 right now, running
>     Commotion-OpenWRT compiled from a build tree pinned to AA r36681,
>     including the packages feed.
>
>     Is there anything I could share from my build tree to help
>     troubleshoot?
>
>
>     On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Dan Staples
>     <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
>     <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
>
>         Just built Commotion-OpenWRT from scratch today, and after
>         going through
>         quickstart, the AP is not functioning. No beacons, and we
>         can't even
>         connect to it as you would with an AP with a hidden SSID. It
>         just isn't
>         working. We've tested on multiple picostation routers, with
>         same results.
>
>         ifconfig reports the access point interface is up, it has an
>         IP address,
>         and even iwinfo reports it as being fully functioning.
>         Yet...there are
>         no beacon frames and we cannot connect to it.
>
>         Curiously, the ad-hoc interface is working just fine.
>
>         Anyone else run into this, or can confirm? Both OpenWRT core
>         feed and
>         the packages feed are pinned to known-working revisions.
>
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We just managed to get the AP working again by killing hostapd and 
wpa_supplicant, and then restarting them, in that order. Still no idea 
what is causing the initial malfunction. Ben, feel like building 
vanilla Commotion-OpenWRT and confirming?

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Dan Staples

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