wi as access point?

[Christiaan Keet]

I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge. It
seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it
possible to configure the wi device to act as access point?

- Christiaan

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[Hellmuth Michaelis]

From the keyboard of Warner Losh:
> In message <2001112417...@riffraff.plig.net> Christiaan Keet writes:
> : I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge. It

> : seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it
> : possible to configure the wi device to act as access point?
>

> A driver to do that exists for FreeBSD, but it is sadly unavailable to
> the public at this time.

Come on Warner, you must have expected that the next question has to be
"why ?" and "why 'sadly' ?" and "when ends 'at this time' ?" ;-)

hellmuth
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[Warner Losh]

In message <20011125075...@hcswork.hcs.de> Hellmuth Michaelis writes:
: >From the keyboard of Warner Losh:

: > In message <2001112417...@riffraff.plig.net> Christiaan Keet writes:
: > : I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge. It
: > : seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it
: > : possible to configure the wi device to act as access point?
: >
: > A driver to do that exists for FreeBSD, but it is sadly unavailable to
: > the public at this time.
:
: Come on Warner, you must have expected that the next question has to be
: "why ?" and "why 'sadly' ?" and "when ends 'at this time' ?" ;-)

It was written, but can't be released just yet due to licesing issues.

Warner

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Warner Losh <i...@harmony.village.org> [011125 09:39] wrote:
> In message <20011125075...@hcswork.hcs.de> Hellmuth Michaelis writes:

> : >From the keyboard of Warner Losh:

> : > In message <2001112417...@riffraff.plig.net> Christiaan Keet writes:
> : > : I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge. It
> : > : seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it
> : > : possible to configure the wi device to act as access point?
> : >
> : > A driver to do that exists for FreeBSD, but it is sadly unavailable to
> : > the public at this time.
> :
> : Come on Warner, you must have expected that the next question has to be
> : "why ?" and "why 'sadly' ?" and "when ends 'at this time' ?" ;-)
>

> It was written, but can't be released just yet due to licesing issues.

Just as a side note, I'm currently using an Addtron PCI<->PCMCIA
adapter with an Addtron wireless card as a "psuedo-base-station",
basically I have it running in ad-hoc mode and it functions pretty
ok. The only really irritating part is that if some card starts
transmitting in 'BSS' mode, then it usually causes the card or
driver to stop working properly. Since this problem is intermittant
(i usually remeber to 'wicontrol -p 3' before running dhclient) I
haven't given it much thought except to sputter and curse loudly
when I do forget and it necessitates a power-cycle of my 'router'.

So basically, you can make a poor-man's base station by using ad-hoc
mode and a wireless card in a freebsd box.

--
-Alfred Perlstein [alf...@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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