Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:07:00 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rum0 acting as an Access point (belkin router) 8.0 R Message-ID: <3a142e751001180807u4164013cuebaf3038775a08f2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B547396.7070902@kukulies.org> References: <4B507B9A.3050803@kukulies.org> <3a142e751001150817x7b4da53fs16cebd2e097890b4@mail.gmail.com> <4B547396.7070902@kukulies.org>
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On 1/18/10, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> wrote: > Paul B Mahol schrieb: >> On 1/15/10, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> 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<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 > ether 00:11:50:cb:52:10 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> > (autoselect <adhoc>) > status: no carrier > > > Why "no carrier"? You still did not created wlan0 interface: Put wlans_rum0="wlan0" in rc.conf, and instead of ifconfig_rum0="..... use ifconfig_wlan0="..... -- Paul B Mahol
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