From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 18 16:15:29 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 4DF62106568B for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:15:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from lerwick.hopto.org (81-178-20-70.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8342D8FC18 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1121 invoked by uid 98); 18 Jan 2010 16:16:47 +0000 Received: from 192.168.0.2 by polaris.lerwick.hopto.org (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.95.1/9971. hbedv: 7.9.1.53/7.1.6.174. spamassassin: 3.2.5. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.2):. Processed in 3.390683 secs); 18 Jan 2010 16:16:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (192.168.0.2) by lerwick.hopto.org with SMTP; 18 Jan 2010 16:16:43 +0000 From: Craig Butler To: Samuel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Moro In-Reply-To: References: <4B507B9A.3050803@kukulies.org> <3a142e751001150817x7b4da53fs16cebd2e097890b4@mail.gmail.com> <4B547396.7070902@kukulies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:14:53 +0000 Message-Id: <1263831293.14794.14.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Paul B Mahol , Christoph Kukulies , 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 16:15:29 -0000 On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:25 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > in my rc.conf: > ifconfig_rum0="DHCP wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0xBC45AD1BD5 ssid > ReseauWIFI" > > Maybe your problem is that wepkey is malformatted in your command > If not, I didn't try to understand, but I also had troubles with the > position of SSID keyword. > (ifconfig arg error, might be your problem) > (btw: I also had problem with ssid containing spaced characters) > > > Later, I tried to set it up as an hostap, it seems to work well. > But when I try to connect from an other computer, I'm unable to to join the > network. > (running under 7.2, I compiled the kernel adding a define matching my > device, based on a similar (I hope so...) chipset) > > > good luck > > > Samuel Martín Moro > CamTrace > {EPITECH.} tek4 > > "Nobody wants to say how this works. > Maybe nobody knows ..." > Xorg.conf(5) > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> Wireless changed on 8, you have to define wlans in rc.conf then set the network up onto the appropriate wlan entry; example; wlans_wpi0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" Regards Craig B