[Click] gen_config_ap.pl problem

[John Bicket]

Hi Nels,

I just checked in a few more changes to that script. Can you try it
again, and if it doesn't work can you email me the contents of
/click/messages?  I should be able to debug it from there.

--john



Nels Anderson [Nels.Anderson at colorado.edu] wrote:
>Aloha,
>
>Excellent, thanks.  The router initializes now, but now I'm not able to get
>stations nearby (as in less than a meter) to associate with the click ap.  Is
>there anything special that needs to be done, or should it just sorta go? 
>Setting the essid on the stations just results in nothing, but looking at a
>tcpdump of the stations traffic shows that it's at least seeing packets from
>the ap.  Again, thanks for all the assistance,
>
>-Nels
>
>Quoting John Bicket <jbicket at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>:
>
>>
>> Hi Nels,
>>
>> Sorry that's a typo. I fixed it just now, and updated cvs.
>>
>> --john
>>
>>
>> Nels Anderson [Nels.Anderson at colorado.edu] wrote:
>> >Aloha,
>> >
>> >Hello again.  Having succeeded with getting madwifi.stripped to run my
>> >wireless as a station, I'm now trying to get it to work as a access point.
>> >However, when I use the gen_config_ap.pl script, the router fails to
>> >initialize.  The script is using rather normal arguments (ath0, test, 4).  A
>> >cat on /click/errors comes up with this:
>> >
>> >line 74: While configuring 'bs :: BeaconScanner':
>> >  AvailableRates element is not provided or not a AvailableRates
>> >Router could not be initialized!
>> >
>> >Line 74 from the config file is this one:
>> >
>> >management_cl [4] -> bs :: BeaconScanner() ->  Discard;
>> >
>> >Taking a look at the source for the BeaconScanner element, it looks like it
>> got
>> >changed but the script didn't.  I think it's now looking for some arguments
>> >that aren't provided in the script.  I'm not totally sure, but that's my
>> >suspicion.  If this is the problem, how can it be corrected?  If not, what
>> else
>> >could be the culprit?  As always, any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >-Nels
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