From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 17 22:17:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0779C122 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0F0428C2 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id rAHMHqFu052963; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:17:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id rAHMHqff052960; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:17:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:17:52 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point In-Reply-To: <86.76.16054.97148825@cdptpa-oedge01> Message-ID: References: <87.6E.31125.9DE47825@cdptpa-oedge03> <86.76.16054.97148825@cdptpa-oedge01> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:17:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:17:55 -0000 On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Warren Block and my previous message: > >> "hostap" is to make a FreeBSD system with a wireless card into a >> wireless router. > >>> Access point, if I understand correctly, would have a wired >>> connection, such as cable or DSL, and the other computer, with the >>> wireless adapter, would have the Atheros or other wireless adapter. > >> No, a router generally has at least two network interfaces. A FreeBSD >> wireless router would have both wired and wireless interfaces. > > I have a wireless router, but not a FreeBSD wireless router as such. > > Wireless router has four Ethernet ports and a little antenna, is > connected by an Ethernet cable to a cable modem which is in turn > connected to cable jack. > > If this router is the access point, I guess I wouldn't use hostap on > ifconfig command line. Use "wlanmode sta" in ifconfig? It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Most of the time, the FreeBSD system is just a client trying to connect to the access point. This article shows how to set that up both in /etc/rc.conf and manually with commands: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html