From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 11:31:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8F61065672 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:31:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA9E8FC22 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:31:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [192.168.1.117]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6458346; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:31:02 +0100 Message-ID: <491ABE73.8000708@kukulies.org> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:30:59 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marten Vijn References: <4919BEE6.7030702@kukulies.org> <1226439793.6382.2.camel@mvn-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1226439793.6382.2.camel@mvn-desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building an access point with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:31:05 -0000 Marten Vijn schrieb: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 18:20 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >> I have an USB Belkin 802.11g WLAN card and would like to build an access >> point from it >> using FreeBSD 7.1. The device is rum0 and it seems to be recognized by >> the kernel. >> > > >> What is the control program for this interface? >> > > ifconfig rum0 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap ssid bert channel 1 > > if the device supports it. > Fantastic. So easy! And it works. -- Christoph > man ifconfig for many more details > > cheers > Marten >