Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:02:07 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project Evil APs Message-ID: <20040530.100207.124867439.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200405292237.33361.dfr@nlsystems.com> References: <200405292237.33361.dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes:
: Is 'mediaopt hostap' supposed to with the Project Evil ndis driver? I
: just acquired a Linksys WMP54G card which appears to use the Broadcom
: 43xx chipset. I was originally intending to build a home-made access
: point out of the thing but I can't set the hostap mode.
:
: Project Evil likes this thing just fine with the drivers that came in
: the box and happily sends and receives packets in adhoc mode. When I
: try something like 'ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt hostap' I just get a
: 'Device not configured' error:
:
: # ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt hostap
: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mediaopt): Device not configured
:
: Any ideas? Should I be doing something other than 'mediaopt hostap' to
: make it an AP? I've attached my dmesg and driver inf files in case
: anyone wants them. I'll send the driver sys file on request - I tried
: attaching it and the mailing list server blackholed it.
I've found that I have to set the ssid and the meida type to get
mediaopt to work.
Warner
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