From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 30 21:17:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56D837B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from txsmtp03.texas.rr.com (smtp3.texas.rr.com [24.93.36.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CDE43E6A for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shocking@houston.rr.com) Received: from bleep.craftncomp.com (cs662552-58.houston.rr.com [66.25.52.58]) by txsmtp03.texas.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g914GoNL019634 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:16:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from houston.rr.com (IDENT:7GeLXiWHtJ5oKXhqD6yHz70ysAUcyCfh@boggle.craftncomp.com [202.12.111.2]) by bleep.craftncomp.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g914HV4M017956 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:17:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shocking@houston.rr.com) Received: from boggle.craftncomp.com (shocking@localhost) by houston.rr.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g914HVY27934 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:17:31 -0500 (envelope-from shocking@boggle.craftncomp.com) Message-Id: <200210010417.g914HVY27934@houston.rr.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Making one's own wireless base station Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:17:31 -0500 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 've bought a Linksys PCI wireless card, and am looking to make my own base station. Does anyone know (once I have the right drivers installed) what to do next? I assume that I can assign the network interface its own IP (it'll have a subnet all of its very own), run a dhcp server on it and hand out addresses. Do I have to do any thing else to get it going? What would I use to set ESSIDs and passords? Stephen - -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message