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6- Power on two SDR boards. Call one board "AP board" and the other "client board". On each board, the TX and RX antenna should vertical/orthogonal to each other as much as possible to gain a good TX/RX isolation.
7- Connect a computer to the AP board via Ethernet cable. The computer should have static IP 192.168.10.1. Open a terminal on the computer, and then in the terminal:
8  ```
9  ssh [email protected]
10  (password: openwifi)
11  cd openwifi
12  ./fosdem.sh
13  (It will create a WiFi AP by hostapd program with config file: hostapd-openwifi.conf)
14  (Wait for the script completed)
15  cat /proc/interrupts
16  (Execute the "cat ..." command for several times)
17  (You should see the number of "sdr,tx_itrpt1" grows, because it sends the "openwifi" beacon periodically)
18  ```
19- Connect another computer to the client board via Ethernet cable. The computer should have static IP 192.168.10.1. Open a terminal on the computer, and then in the terminal:
20  ```
21  ssh [email protected]
22  (password: openwifi)
23  service network-manager stop
24  cd openwifi
25  ./wgd.sh
26  (Wait for the script completed)
27  ifconfig sdr0 up
28  iwlist sdr0 scan
29  (The "openwifi" AP should be listed in the scanning results)
30  iwconfig sdr0 essid openwifi
31  ```
32- Now the client is trying to associate with the AP. The AP board terminal should print like:
33  ```
34  ...
35  sdr0: AP-STA-CONNECTED 66:55:44:33:22:58
36  sdr0: STA 66:55:44:33:22:58 RADIUS: starting accounting session 1FF1C1B4-00000001
37  ```
38  If not, please adjust antenna/distance and re-run the commands on the client side.
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40- After association is done, in the terminal of client:
41  ```
42  dhclient sdr0
43  (Wait for it completed)
44  ifconfig sdr0
45  (Now you should see the IP address like 192.168.13.x allocated by AP)
46  ./set_csma_normal.sh
47  ping 192.168.13.1
48  (Ping the AP)
49  ```
50  Now the communication link should be already setup between the AP and the client.
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