Building an access point with FreeBSD

Marten Vijn info at martenvijn.nl
Tue Nov 11 13:55:02 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 18:20 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I have an USB Belkin 802.11g WLAN card and would like to build an access 
> point from it
> using FreeBSD 7.1. The device is rum0 and it seems to be recognized by 
> the kernel.

> What is the control program for this interface? 

ifconfig rum0 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap ssid bert channel 1

if the device supports it.

man ifconfig for many more details 

cheers
Marten


> ancontrol doesn't seem 
> to work. wicontrol isn't there
> at all on my system.
> 
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> Christoph
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