From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 04:00:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED5237B409 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 04:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s1.vhost.cz (s1.vhost.cz [195.39.16.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E84743F85 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 04:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from konfer@mikulas.com) Received: (qmail 57435 invoked from network); 19 May 2003 13:00:55 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO mik.hide.vol.cz) (konfer@mikulas.com@195.122.204.155) by s1.vhost.cz with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 19 May 2003 13:00:55 +0200 From: Jiri Mikulas To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDB42@EX-LONDON> References: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDB42@EX-LONDON> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053341996.577.9.camel@mik.hide.vol.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 19 May 2003 13:00:00 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: freebsd laptop as wireless AP X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 11:00:59 -0000 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.