freebsd laptop as wireless AP

Vince Hoffman Vince.Hoffman at uk.circle.com
Mon May 19 03:38:53 PDT 2003


Hi,
	I've been working at getting an old toshiba tecra 750cdt to work as
a wireless access point using the guide in the handbook, The wireless card
I'm using is a d-link dwl-650 (original that uses the prism2 chipset, I
checked.) 
Its all looking good to start, the 3com 3c589 pcmcia lan card connects to
the wired side fine and ifconfig and wicontrol will talk to wi0 but if I try
and tell it to go into hostapp mode (as detailed in the handbook) i get 
wlan-gate# ifconfig wi0 ssid testing channel 7 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt
hostap up stationname "test AP"
ifconfig SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured

I know the card works as i've tested it (in adhoc) on a windows2k machine. 
any suggestions ?
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