[MLB-WIRELESS] FreeBSD and APs

[Jason Tedesco]

My testing with WiFi cards on a FreeBSD box was done a while ago, so it may be worth double checking what I say.

You should be able to get Box 1 working with iwconfig.  Im pretty sure iwconfig uses the wavelan drivers which there should be a port for.

Box 2.  It can be a little tricky getting a cisco card working in 4.8.  In 4.8 to get a cisco card working in Infrastructure mode you need to update AN(8), this can be done through CVS.  If you do an ifconfig -mediaopt an0 (I think that command is wrong, I don't have a BOX to check on at the moment) it will display all the modes your card supports.  If hostap isn't in there, it aint going to work.

Box 3 - Client set-up should be nice and easy.  Refer to the Freebsd Handbook for commands.

I know in 5.1 most wifi cards work straight out of the box.  For more information the below link would be a very good starting point.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

Hope this helps.

#jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul van den bergen [mailto:pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 6:18 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] FreeBSD and APs
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have 3 boxes with Wifi cards at work... all running FreeBSD 4.8
> 
> box 1 - wi0 - Netgear MA304
> box 2 - an0 - Cisco Aironet
> box 3 - an0 - Cisco Aironet
> 
> I need the first two to act as AP's (servers) and the thrid 
> to act as an AP 
> client...
> 
> what do I need to do?  It's been so long since this was 
> discussed I have 
> forgotten how...
> 
> note it is not as simple as putting the cards in AP mode...  
> I need to put 
> them into AP server mode! i.e. with on-card bridging turned on...
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr Paul van den Bergen
> Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
> caia.swin.edu.au
> pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
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