Question about online ath man page regarding access point

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> from Warren Block and my previous message:
>
>> "hostap" is to make a FreeBSD system with a wireless card into a
>> wireless router.
>
>>> Access point, if I understand correctly, would have a wired
>>> connection, such as cable or DSL, and the other computer, with the
>>> wireless adapter, would have the Atheros or other wireless adapter.
>
>> No, a router generally has at least two network interfaces.  A FreeBSD
>> wireless router would have both wired and wireless interfaces.
>
> I have a wireless router, but not a FreeBSD wireless router as such.
>
> Wireless router has four Ethernet ports and a little antenna, is
> connected by an Ethernet cable to a cable modem which is in turn
> connected to cable jack.
>
> If this router is the access point, I guess I wouldn't use hostap on
> ifconfig command line.  Use "wlanmode sta" in ifconfig?

It depends on what you are trying to accomplish.  Most of the time, the 
FreeBSD system is just a client trying to connect to the access point. 
This article shows how to set that up both in /etc/rc.conf and manually 
with commands: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html