From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 11:03:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C158E16A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adelaide.lemis.com (xdhcp39.vicor-nb.com [208.218.234.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E632943FB1 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@adelaide.lemis.com) Received: by adelaide.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E28C41802A; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:17:51 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: Hans Vledder Message-ID: <20030913191751.GH4453@adelaide.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:03:59 -0000 On Friday, 5 September 2003 at 17:55:14 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote: > All, > > I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read > that I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access > point mode). Does anyone known a brand/model (PCI) that's being > supported by FreeBSD ? I don't have a direct answer to this question, but a bit of information: Last weekend I bought a couple of 802.11b/g wireless routers (AirLink, I think). These boxes contain an access point, a four-port Ethernet switch and an additional downlink Ethernet port. They're intended as cable or ADSL gateways, accessed by the downlink port. You can configure the downlink port to access the other networks by NAT or directly, and you can run a mini-firewall if you want. It can also function as a DHCP server. These boxes cost me $80 at Fry's, the same price as a basic 802.11b access point. This weekend I went back to Fry's looking for Atheros-based wireless cards. The cheapest I could find cost $100. Based on that, it's not clear why you would want to build an AP from a wireless card. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers