From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 4 22:13:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4756A37B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8185A43E3B for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g755D79R063527; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:13:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 23:12:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020804.231237.09568276.imp@bsdimp.com> To: help@pdscc.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with freebsd access point setup as per sysadmin mag From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020804232704.QYQF3365.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> References: <20020804232704.QYQF3365.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The methods described in the sysadmin magazine is not a "Access Point," in the normal sense of the word. Chances are you are running into the quagmire that's known as ad-hoc modes (ibss, ibss + create, and demo ad-hoc). The long and the short of it is that you need FreeBSD-stable and hostap to make this work reliably. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message