Why do I loose wlan0 when I connect wlan1 to wifi

[leathalinjexion]

So I applied the fix from the wpa client connect thread in order to get wlan1 to connect to an AP however every time it connects I loose wlan0, it stops broadcasting, any idea why?

[leathalinjexion]

To answer my own question it seems that the network configuration is using wlan0 to connect, I was under the impression (from another thread) that network tab controlled wlan1 but it would appear that either that is incorrect or something is wrong on my pineapple

[ScottHelme]

I keep losing my wlan0 when trying to setup client mode on wlan1. Any fix yet?

[Darren Kitchen]

out of curiosity how are the both of you powering your pineapple? It really really shouldn't be a power issue as in our testing all of that has been solved, but in the off chance the both of you are using a USB to barrel with a laptop that isn't supplying enough amperage, this *could* explain.

Still thinking its software. Can you guys post the contents of /etc/config/network and /etc/config/wireless ?

[leathalinjexion]

/etc/config/network

config interface loopback
option ifname lo
option proto static
option ipaddr 127.0.0.1
option netmask 255.0.0.0

config interface lan
option ifname eth0
option type bridge
option proto static
option ipaddr 172.16.42.1
option netmask 255.255.255.0
option gateway 172.16.42.42
option dns 8.8.8.8

config interface wan
option ifname wlan1
option proto dhcp

config interface usb
option ifname usb0
option proto dhcp

config interface wan2
option ifname ' '
option proto ' '
option service ' '
option device ' '
option apn ' '
option username ' '
option password ' '
option defaultroute ' '
option ppp_redial ' '
option peerdns ' '
option dns ' '
option keepalive ' '
option pppd_options ' '

/etc/config/wireless

config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option channel '11'
option hwmode '11g'
option macaddr 'C0:FE:C0:FE:C0:FE'
option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface
option device 'radio0'
option mode 'sta'
option hidden '1'
option encryption 'psk2+tkip+aes'
option ssid 'SomeAP'
option key 'nunya'
option network 'lan'

config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option channel '11'
option hwmode '11ng'
option macaddr 'C0:FE:C0:FE:C0:FE''
option htmode 'HT20'
list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-20'
list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-40'
list ht_capab 'RX-STBC1'
list ht_capab 'DSSS_CCK-40'
option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface
option device 'radio1'
option hidden '0'
option ssid 'BronyBox'
option mode 'ap'
option network 'lan'

[boob00]

Having the same problem as you guys, powering mine off wall power. I go into the client tab and click on my AP to connect to and for some reason it shuts down my wlan0 interface.

Heres my /etc/config/network

config interface loopback
option ifname lo
option proto static
option ipaddr 127.0.0.1
option netmask 255.0.0.0

config interface lan
option ifname eth0
option type bridge
option proto static
option ipaddr 172.16.42.1
option netmask 255.255.255.0
option gateway 172.16.42.42
option dns 8.8.8.8

config interface wan
option ifname wlan1
option proto dhcp

config interface usb
option ifname usb0
option proto dhcp

config interface wan2
option ifname ' '
option proto ' '
option service ' '
option device ' '
option apn ' '
option username ' '
option password ' '
option defaultroute ' '
option ppp_redial ' '
option peerdns ' '
option dns ' '
option keepalive ' '
option pppd_options ' '

Edited October 23, 2013 by BOOB00

[leathalinjexion]

oh yeah forget to mention i'm powering off the wall to

[ejosterberg]

Just got my pineapple, powered from AC adapter, same problem.

[thesugarat]

/etc/config/network

config interface loopback

option ifname lo

option proto static

option ipaddr 127.0.0.1

option netmask 255.0.0.0

config interface lan

option ifname eth0

option type bridge

option proto static

option ipaddr 172.16.42.1

option netmask 255.255.255.0

option gateway 172.16.42.42

option dns 8.8.8.8

config interface wan

option ifname wlan1

option proto dhcp

config interface usb

option ifname usb0

option proto dhcp

config interface wan2

option ifname ' '

option proto ' '

option service ' '

option device ' '

option apn ' '

option username ' '

option password ' '

option defaultroute ' '

option ppp_redial ' '

option peerdns ' '

option dns ' '

option keepalive ' '

option pppd_options ' '

/etc/config/wireless

config wifi-device 'radio0'

option type 'mac80211'

option channel '11'

option hwmode '11g'

option macaddr 'C0:FE:C0:FE:C0:FE'

option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface

option device 'radio0'

option mode 'sta'

option hidden '1'

option encryption 'psk2+tkip+aes'

option ssid 'SomeAP'

option key 'nunya'

option network 'lan'

config wifi-device 'radio1'

option type 'mac80211'

option channel '11'

option hwmode '11ng'

option macaddr 'C0:FE:C0:FE:C0:FE''

option htmode 'HT20'

list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-20'

list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-40'

list ht_capab 'RX-STBC1'

list ht_capab 'DSSS_CCK-40'

option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface

option device 'radio1'

option hidden '0'

option ssid 'BronyBox'

option mode 'ap'

option network 'lan'

Your radios are backwards in your wireless file and it has the same MAC for both radios! I'll try cleaning it up and reposting.

Try this with the proper MAC addresses put in the proper places…. And of course make sure the encryption is correct. Do it manually if you don't want to use my workaround or the unverified (by Seb or another Mod) fix. http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/wireless#wpa.modes

config wifi-device 'radio0'

option type 'mac80211'

option channel '11'

option hwmode '11ng'

option macaddr 'C0:FE:C0:FE:C0:FE''

option htmode 'HT20'

list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-20'

list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-40'

list ht_capab 'RX-STBC1'

list ht_capab 'DSSS_CCK-40'

option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface

option device 'radio0'

option hidden '0'

option ssid 'BronyBox'

option mode 'ap'

option network 'lan'

config wifi-device 'radio1'

option type 'mac80211'

option channel '11'

option hwmode '11g'

option macaddr 'Proper MAC 2'

option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface

option device 'radio1'

option mode 'sta'

option hidden '1'

option encryption 'psk2+tkip+aes'

option ssid 'SomeAP'

option key 'nunya'

option network 'wan'

Edited the spoiler… Somehow the config wifi-device for radio0 was chopped. Now you should be able to just manually edit that in SSH. Reboot and see what happens. When you go to the Network Tile: Client Mode Tab and select your network it should just edit the radio1 section of wifi-iface.

Edited October 23, 2013 by thesugarat

[leathalinjexion]

@thesugarat notice anything in particular about those Mac addresses......anything? I'll give you a hint, they arent my real id's, they were modified to protect the innocent, but only personal information, the radios and such were left alone, only the Mac's, keys and ssid's were changed :)

Here's the real MAC addresses

M0:CA:M0:CA:M0:CA
CA:FF:IN:AT:ED:JK

Edited October 23, 2013 by leathalinjexion

[thesugarat]

Gotcha, but that set off red flags right away… :)

[leathalinjexion]

Gotcha, but that set off red flags right away… :)

Understood, I apologize for the confusion, I changed them to something Darren would recognize as fake

[leathalinjexion]

@thesugarat even if they are swapped it would still seem that the network configuration tab is programmatically referring to wlan0 so regardless of which configuration is setup the information is going to be updated when I click the drop down to choose what AP I want to connect to anyway. I could be wrong (i usually am) but I'm thinking this is likely an issue in the network configuration methods/routines.

Looking at /pineapple/components/system/network/functions.php

I see the following in the connect routine which looks like it is specifically shutting down wlan1 when attempting to connect.

if(isset($_GET['connect'])){

set_time_limit(60*10);

$ap = json_decode($_GET['connect']);

$ssid = $ap->ESSID;

exec("ifconfig wlan1 down");

then a little further down I see this which im not sure but I believe its using wlan0 to connect which boots you off if your connected to wlan0

exec("uci commit wireless");
exec("wifi");
echo "done";

I havent looked through all the code so Im not 100% sure but that would make more sense to me as to the cause of the network configuration tab trying to use wlan0 instead of wlan1 unless the intended action is to use wlan0 but that doesnt make sense since it boots you off if your connected via wifi

Am I in left field here or does this make sense to anyone else?

Edited October 23, 2013 by leathalinjexion

[thesugarat]

Can you post your dmesg output? That will tell us what phy0 and phy1 are tied to physically. I could be wrong here but to me phy0=radio0=wlan0 and phy1=radio1=wlan1 and phy0 should be tied to the Atheros and phy1 to the 8187. To me it looked like your /wireless file was pointing to the wrong physical cards when trying to execute that code. As far as your interpretation of the code in functions.php that looks right to me but I'm far from any kind of expert on php.

[leathalinjexion]

Sure

[ 32.530000] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9330 Rev:1 mem=0xb8100000, irq=2
[ 33.030000] ieee80211 phy1: hwaddr C0:FE:C0:FE:C0:FE, RTL8187vB (default) V1 + rtl8225z2, rfkill mask 2

[leathalinjexion]

Until we get this worked out, those of you who are experiencing the same thing, if you are connecting to an AP using the network tab and it seems that if it does indeed connect which for me it is (just not on the radio that I want it to connect with), then you can access the admin control using the IP which your AP assigns to it, for me it's 192.168.1.38:1471 check your logs to see what its connecting as.

[thesugarat]

I edited the /wireless file I provided for you above. An important piece went missing during copy/paste.

[leathalinjexion]

@thesugarat brilliant, well that worked. swapping the info did the trick.

[Subho Halder]

Can you post your dmesg output? That will tell us what phy0 and phy1 are tied to physically. I could be wrong here but to me phy0=radio0=wlan0 and phy1=radio1=wlan1 and phy0 should be tied to the Atheros and phy1 to the 8187. To me it looked like your /wireless file was pointing to the wrong physical cards when trying to execute that code. As far as your interpretation of the code in functions.php that looks right to me but I'm far from any kind of expert on php.

I am facing the same problem however, if you look in the screenshot it seems radio0=wlan1 and radio1=wlan0

[thesugarat]

Right, but post your /etc/config/wireless file and we'll see if it's due to that.

[Subho Halder]

ahh @thesugarat i found out the problem, it was with the /etc/config/wireless file, now I am able to connect wlan1 in client mode and wlan0 with access point mode and everything seems to be working great ! have some small issues with dnsspoofing i will open a new thread for that i guess

-EDIT-

right now WiFi Manager says radio0=wlan0 and radio1=wlan1

Edited October 24, 2013 by Subho Halder