From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 05:28:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F98106564A for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:28:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from subscriber+freebsd@markshroyer.com) Received: from frodo.paleogene.net (frodo.paleogene.net [206.125.175.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18E18FC16 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from auth-client.paleogene.net (auth-client.paleogene.net [206.125.175.178]) (Authenticated sender: hidden) by frodo.paleogene.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 215A33F411 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:28:29 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=markshroyer.com; s=default; t=1268371709; bh=FsIb0Spl48nXsS5wtI9Xy00njA7wnpM8TVx/EJsnOoc=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=v6T5TA3yqSGoebe6NCSt3p6/KrQHwLOPEnlY2/4LGuRFTKuSZIv1OUvxHHH1wIzLA UsG175rCUmcH3u867afYFGek86aDzOZV7xqIYi4UuqGyEp1e6lNRiJ6E6SJljcMP4F okWoAtbndMzddFB+qD7dF3uol98LectMNdtLT860= Message-ID: <4B99D0F8.9080800@markshroyer.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:28:24 -0500 From: Mark Shroyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B760@mail.ucwv.edu> <201003110350.55226.oloringr@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003110350.55226.oloringr@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Replacing Home Router With PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:28:30 -0000 On 3/10/2010 8:50 PM, Ed Jobs wrote: > On Thursday 11 of March 2010 03:36, mailinglist wrote: >> The question is, can it use that wireless card to >> act as a access point instead of a client (how the card is intended to be >> used)? > you can run the hostapd daemon to configure a card as an access point. I did > this on an openbsd box, so i'm perfectly sure you can do it on a freebsd box > too. In all honesty, as much as I love FreeBSD, this is the sort of thing that OpenBSD really excels at. So the OP may wish to look at OpenBSD too, but as you say, either operating system can do the job. -- Mark Shroyer http://markshroyer.com/contact/