Date: 19 May 2003 13:00:00 +0200 From: Jiri Mikulas <konfer@mikulas.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd laptop as wireless AP Message-ID: <1053341996.577.9.camel@mik.hide.vol.cz> In-Reply-To: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDB42@EX-LONDON> References: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDB42@EX-LONDON>
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Hi.:) > Hi, > I've been working at getting an old toshiba tecra 750cdt to work as > a wireless access point using the guide in the handbook, The wireless card > I'm using is a d-link dwl-650 (original that uses the prism2 chipset, I > checked.) > Its all looking good to start, the 3com 3c589 pcmcia lan card connects to > the wired side fine and ifconfig and wicontrol will talk to wi0 but if I try > and tell it to go into hostapp mode (as detailed in the handbook) i get > wlan-gate# ifconfig wi0 ssid testing channel 7 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt > hostap up stationname "test AP" > ifconfig SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured > I'm not sure, but I think that hostap works only with prism 2.5 chipsets check man wi.. Jiri. > I know the card works as i've tested it (in adhoc) on a windows2k machine. > any suggestions ? But IMHO ad-hoc is not case of hostap mode (infrastructure as AP works) Jiri.
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