Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:14:53 +0000 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: Samuel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Moro <faust64@gmail.com> Cc: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rum0 acting as an Access point (belkin router) 8.0 R Message-ID: <1263831293.14794.14.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <ce5f79aa1001180725k40ec87aer997f43c5d47d7684@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B507B9A.3050803@kukulies.org> <3a142e751001150817x7b4da53fs16cebd2e097890b4@mail.gmail.com> <4B547396.7070902@kukulies.org> <ce5f79aa1001180725k40ec87aer997f43c5d47d7684@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:25 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
> in my rc.conf:
> ifconfig_rum0="DHCP wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0xBC45AD1BD5 ssid
> ReseauWIFI"
>
> Maybe your problem is that wepkey is malformatted in your command
> If not, I didn't try to understand, but I also had troubles with the
> position of SSID keyword.
> (ifconfig arg error, might be your problem)
> (btw: I also had problem with ssid containing spaced characters)
>
>
> Later, I tried to set it up as an hostap, it seems to work well.
> But when I try to connect from an other computer, I'm unable to to join the
> network.
> (running under 7.2, I compiled the kernel adding a define matching my
> device, based on a similar (I hope so...) chipset)
>
>
> good luck
>
>
> Samuel Martín Moro
> CamTrace
> {EPITECH.} tek4
>
> "Nobody wants to say how this works.
> Maybe nobody knows ..."
> Xorg.conf(5)
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>wrote:
>
> > Paul B Mahol schrieb:
> >
> > On 1/15/10, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I'm not sure wether syntax has changed but I wanted to cretae an wlan
> >>> acess point
> >>> and tried various things. Under 7.0 I got it working with the following
> >>> command
> >>>
> >>> ifconfig rum0 inet 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap ssid CITYOFFICE wepmode
> >>> on wepkey 0xf00baf00ba weptxkey 1 channel 1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I tried this but got a socket error "Invalid argument".
> >>>
> >>> Then I tried (from an example in the rum (4) manpage):ifconfig wlan
> >>> create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap CITYOFFICE wepmode on
> >>> wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa weptxkey 1 channel 1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Perhaps you want this one:
> >>
> >> ifconfig wlan create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 wlanmode hostap ssid
> >> CITYOFFICE wepmode on wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa weptxkey 1 channel 1
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I tried this in rc.conf:
> >
> > ifconfig_rum0="wlan create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 wlanmode hostap ssid
> > CITYOFFICE wepmode on wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa weptxkey 1 channel 1"
> >
> > I got this:
> >
> > rum0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> > ether 00:11:50:cb:52:10
> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (autoselect
> > <adhoc>)
> > status: no carrier
> >
> >
> > Why "no carrier"?
> > And I would expect more info on the interface like SSID and such.
> >
> > --
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> > and got:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> wlan0
> >>> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
> >>>
> >>> But suddenly the wlan0 device is there.
> >>>
> >>> Can anybody fill me in?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Christoph
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
Wireless changed on 8, you have to define wlans in rc.conf then set the
network up onto the appropriate wlan entry;
example;
wlans_wpi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
Regards
Craig B
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