Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:07:19 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman <Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: freebsd laptop as wireless AP Message-ID: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDB49@EX-LONDON>
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Hi, I sent this to mobile originaly but maybe someone where can help. 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 prism2.5 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 Ive narrowed it down so that its the "mediaopt hostap" thats causing the error, do i need a firmware upgrade or something (i'm using the latest upgrade d-link provide, 8c2)? I know the card works as i've tested it (only in adhoc mode though) on a windows2k machine. any suggestions ? Vince
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