Comments on: Asrock ION 330HT as Wireless Access Point

By: Chunk1970

Chunk1970 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:03:13 +0000

THanks Marcel,

This has got my Asrock running nicely on Ubuntu 9.10 Kernel 2.6.31-20.
The only thing I had to do differently was that I had to use iptables rather the route to configure my wireless lan to the internet ie.
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
This nicely redirects all traffic from the wireless network through to the wired network.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:38:32 +0000

Actually I haven’t used the access point very much, because it appeared to be unstable when I use NFS (the PC/Ubuntu stops responding completely; this doesn’t happen when I use the wired connection) and the wireless range was limited (the Asrock has no external antenna).

I didn’t see your deauthentication/authentication problem. Maybe it has to do with encryption. I used WPA2 only.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:15:07 +0000

Hi Marcel,

Nice blog! I have done basically the same thing and found this posting very informative. I’m using a Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu 9.10. It is acting as a NAT router/firewall (UFW with NAT rules), DHCP server (dhcp3-server) and AP (hostapd with Atheros AR928x based card). My question is related to the performance of your AP. While my AP configuration seems to work for the most part, my clients drop their connection regularly. Based on syslog this seems to be due to some kind of deauthentication/authentication issue. The only way to get the clients to reconnect is to manually restart hostapd.

I’m curious to know if you have seen this behavior on your AP as well. If you have, how have you resolved the issue?

Thanks!