Re: FreeBSD and Hotspots

From: Bruce A. Mah (bmah_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 07/14/04

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To: staticblackz <ebay01@chatusa.com>

    [Please wrap your lines to some reasonable line length...thanks.]

    If memory serves me right, staticblackz wrote:

    > I am trying to build a hotspot for freebsd I was wondering how
    > something like this would be made, is there already one out there I
    > can use. I would need it to redirect users to some web page ran off
    > apache that can send their logon info to the radius server also
    > making it so they can't browse the net until they were authenticated
    > with the radius server.

    Recent beta versions of m0n0wall (a FreeBSD-based firewall) have
    captive portal support. I haven't tried this feature personally, but
    I'm pretty sure there's RADIUS support.

    http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/

    > My other problem is I am trying to set an
    > orinoco pcmcia card to ap-mode and it won't work it gives me the
    > error..."ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mediaopt): Device not configured" I
    > have tried many different ways to make this card work and it won't,
    > I use the command " ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xfffffff0
    > ssid my_net channel 11 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt hostap up". If I
    > switch the device to ath1 for my atheros card ti works fine..I
    > REALLY need help with these 2 problems

    As another poster pointed out, I don't think the Hermes-based cards
    can do hostap mode. The Prism- and Atheros-based cards can. See the
    wi(4) and ath(4) manual pages for more details.

    Bruce.

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