From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 18 14:44:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6784C1065692 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:44:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B438FC13 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:44:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [172.27.4.215]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6749177; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:43:52 +0100 Message-ID: <4B547396.7070902@kukulies.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:43:34 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul B Mahol References: <4B507B9A.3050803@kukulies.org> <3a142e751001150817x7b4da53fs16cebd2e097890b4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a142e751001150817x7b4da53fs16cebd2e097890b4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rum0 acting as an Access point (belkin router) 8.0 R X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:44:19 -0000 Paul B Mahol schrieb: > On 1/15/10, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >> I'm not sure wether syntax has changed but I wanted to cretae an wlan >> acess point >> and tried various things. Under 7.0 I got it working with the following >> command >> >> ifconfig rum0 inet 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap ssid CITYOFFICE wepmode >> on wepkey 0xf00baf00ba weptxkey 1 channel 1 >> >> >> I tried this but got a socket error "Invalid argument". >> >> Then I tried (from an example in the rum (4) manpage):ifconfig wlan >> create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap CITYOFFICE wepmode on >> wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa weptxkey 1 channel 1 >> >> > > Perhaps you want this one: > > ifconfig wlan create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 wlanmode hostap ssid > CITYOFFICE wepmode on wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa weptxkey 1 channel 1 > > I tried this in rc.conf: ifconfig_rum0="wlan create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 wlanmode hostap ssid CITYOFFICE wepmode on wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa weptxkey 1 channel 1" I got this: rum0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:11:50:cb:52:10 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect ) status: no carrier Why "no carrier"? And I would expect more info on the interface like SSID and such. -- Christoph >> and got: >> >> >> wlan0 >> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured >> >> But suddenly the wlan0 device is there. >> >> Can anybody fill me in? >> >> -- >> Christoph >> >>