Re: Project Evil APs

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 05/30/04

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    Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:02:07 -0600 (MDT)
To: dfr@nlsystems.com

    In message: <200405292237.33361.dfr@nlsystems.com>
                Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> 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
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