From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 09:02:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC5616A4CE for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 09:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1F343D46 for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 09:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4UG1gWh084198; Sun, 30 May 2004 10:01:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:02:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20040530.100207.124867439.imp@bsdimp.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200405292237.33361.dfr@nlsystems.com> References: <200405292237.33361.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project Evil APs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 16:02:11 -0000 In message: <200405292237.33361.dfr@nlsystems.com> Doug Rabson 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