Hi Lingfeng,

No need to post the same question twice.
What did you find when searching this forum ... ?!?

Greetings,

John

WiFi is not supported in 5.1. Yet, this link may give you some ideas on how to get it setup manually.

Peter

hi,
i tried to install MadWifi driver.but when i try to set my Wireless NIC as a AP,it shown me an error:

[root@clearos ~]# iwconfig ath0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument.
[root@clearos ~]#

and then i tried to use wlanconfig:

[root@clearos ~]# wlanconfig ath0 destroy
wlanconfig: ioctl: Operation not supported
[root@clearos ~]# wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode adhoc
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
[root@clearos ~]#

could u give me some advise?thx!

Unfortunately not all devices have the driver support to enable 'master' AP mode. You can however connect it to an existing wireless network but that defeats your objective

If you haven't seen it already this list gives an idea of what functions various wireless drivers give:-
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers

Best method is to connect a space ethernet NIC to the LAN port of a cheap wireless router, disable DHCP / Firewall and it's sorted...no messing around compiling drivers etc. Just setup up the wireless router with a different IP from ClearOS but in the same range

Hi all,

Tim Burgess wrote:

... disable DHCP / Firewall ...

When I disabled DHCP on my modem / router (Davolink DV 2020) with the following code in my browser:

http://<ip modem>/lancfg2Reset.cgi?enblDhcpSrv=0

My modem / router and phone stopped working 24 hours later ... :blink:
The only way I was able to get a connection again was by resetting it.
Changing the lease time from 24 hours to 9999 hours (the maximum possible) did not solve the problem.
My ISP even send me another modem, but this did not solve it.

The only way for me to separate the DHCP from my LAN is to create a virtual server on my modem / router that points to my eth1 (Internet) and to use a different ip range on my LAN than my modem / router.
It's the only way I got it to work, so if you understand this and know a better way to do this ... please tell me.

Greetings,

John

hi,

Unfortunately not all devices have the driver support to enable 'master' AP mode.

in my FreeBSD and debian linux,i can set it to AP mode.and i hav already install MadWifi Driver in ClearOS.could u give me some advise?thx

Hi Tim,

I moved my post to this thread.

Tim Burgess wrote:

Eeek, that's not normal behaviour - and certainly not the 'norm'

You can actually run DHCP on the router and not on ClearOS, as long as the gateway and DNS address it gives out points to your ClearOS IP

I agree, that's why it took me some time before I was able to get my game servers back on-line.

I set it up as follows:

The DNS servers of my router are from my ISP.
The DNS server of my LAN clients is ClearOS.
DNS servers of eth1 are from my ISP. (or should this my modem ... ?!?)
DHCP on ClearOS is enabled.

I know ... it's confusing ... :silly: ... but so far I have had no problems, other than that when my modem / router firmware is updated that my eth1 occasionally gets a new ip address ... :blink: ... but I learned to live with that.
Even when it means reprogramming the virtual server on my modem / router and that my game servers will not be available on the Internet, until I did this.

I only recently changed my modem firewall to only let true the ports that I use.
Before that I disabled it by creating a virtual server for all ports (1 - 65535) that redirected it's traffic to eth1.

Greetings,

John

EDIT:
Should I change this setup ... I don't know into what ... ?!?
Please advise.

Lingfeng Xiong wrote:

hi,

Unfortunately not all devices have the driver support to enable 'master' AP mode.

in my FreeBSD and debian linux,i can set it to AP mode.and i hav already install MadWifi Driver in ClearOS.could u give me some advise?thx

A quick search on madwifi master mode returned the following - see section on creating a virtual AP
http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo" target="_blank">http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ChangingMode" target="_blank">http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/ChangingMode

You will need to familiarise yourself with how the madwifi configuration is put together manually, as the ClearOS webconfig only uses iwconfig and so will be unable to configure your card automatically.
http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs

John maybe best covered in a separate thread - as you are at risk of hijacking this one

But...using the virtual server function of your modem is the best way to forward all traffic to ClearOS (your gateway), if it doesn't have a separate 'bridge' function

Ideally all your client DNS settings should point to your ClearOS internal LAN IP. Otherwise name resolution within your network will not work. You *can* point them to your ISP servers but you will be unable to access your local machines by the hostnames. Only ClearOS (your gateway device) needs to have the ISP DNS servers.

Hi all,

You are right Tim ... sorry guys, I got carried away ... :blush:
I will not need to start a new thread, because you already answered my question.
My Davolink DV 2020 has no bridge mode option and the clients DNS settings already point to ClearOS.

Thanks,

John