Gday
I can also replicate this issue.
http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=327/32
As indicated the problem exists only when hostapd is started during the
booting sequence.
I think this may be related to use of nohup and/or the rc process
environment. I've altered interfaces.inc to include the hostapd -B flag (run
as a daemon process), and included changes to start/stop hostapd the same
way as racoon in vpn.inc.
A brief look at the hostapd code suggests the only difference -B makes is a
call to daemon (man 3).
I've done some basic testing using FreeBSD and WinXP WPA-PSK clients.
Suggested fix...
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--- interfaces.inc.orig Wed Aug 1 22:30:04 2007
+++ interfaces.inc Fri Aug 10 20:06:17 2007
@@ -312,8 +312,11 @@
global $config, $g;
/* kill any running hostapd */
- killbypid("{$g['varrun_path']}/hostapd-$if.pid");
- unlink_if_exists("{$g['varetc_path']}/hostapd-$if.conf");
+ killbyname("hostapd");
+ /* wait for process to die */
+ sleep(2);
+ /* send a SIGKILL to be sure */
+ sigkillbyname("hostapd", "KILL");
/* killing hostapd leaves the interface in down state - make sure
it's up again */
mwexec("/sbin/ifconfig " . escapeshellarg($if) . " up");
@@ -335,12 +338,7 @@
fclose($fd);
/* start hostapd */
- $pid = mwexec_bg("/usr/sbin/hostapd
{$g['varetc_path']}/hostapd-$if.conf");
-
- /* write hostapd PID to file for later use */
- $fd = fopen("{$g['varrun_path']}/hostapd-$if.pid",
"w");
- fwrite($fd, $pid);
- fclose($fd);
+ mwexec("/usr/sbin/hostapd -B
{$g['varetc_path']}/hostapd-$if.conf");
}
} else {
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Regards
Frank | 