Re: problems making an access point w/current

From: Sam Leffler <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:15:48 -0700

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> writes:

ifconfig_wlan0="channel 11 ssid rgnet-aden wep wepkey thirteenchars weptxkey 1 mediaopt hostap up"
[...]
# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0:
flags=8d43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:0b:6b:83:59:25
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
status: no carrier
ssid rgnet-aden channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g)
country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit
txpower 19 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst ff dturbo bintval 0

Note that it says "autoselect" instead of "hostap". AFAIK, you have to
specify a media and a mode before you specify a mediaopt. Try "media
autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap" instead of just "mediaopt hostap".

The operating mode of a vap is immutable; it must be set when it's created by cloning the underlying ifnet. I believe there are usage examples in all the wireless driver man pages. The scripts in

src/tools/tools/net80211/scripts

also demonstrate how to setup various configurations.

Sam

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