Nick, I tried this maybe a month back. I added an ath card to a firewall (becoming the third NIC) and set it up following the directions. While I could connect to the access point/firewall, I could not get to anything beyond it. After some reading, I decdied to buy a standalone access point and replace the wireless ath card with a wired card to use to connect to the access point. The standalone access point (Netgear) wasn't that much more than the card and from everything I have read is the better way to go. If you are able to sned data through the access point, I would love to hear about it...
Sincerely Mark On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: > G'day all, > > I was recently asked to set up a wireless access point by a > mate. Having read section 27.3.3.2 - "Building a FreeBSD Access > Point" > ("http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireles >s.html") from the FreeBSD Handbook I duly advised my friend that they'd > need to procure one of the Prism cards listed in the wi(4) man > page, as, according to the Handbook, "In order to set up a > wireless access point with FreeBSD, you need to have a > compatible wireless card. Currently, only cards with the Prism > chipset are supported". > > When he got back to me the next day and said he couldn't find > one in any major store and that he'd been told they were no > longer available first-hand (whether all this is true or not, > I'm not entirely sure - but it's not really all that relevant > for the purposes of this question) I was a little surprised. > > After much more stuffing about, the ath(4) man page caught my > eye and I found the magic sentence: "Supported features include > 802.11 and 802.3 frames, power management, BSS, IBSS, and > host-based access point operation modes". > > I've subsequently set the thing up and it's now chugging away > merrily in hostap mode with hostapd helping out with 802.11i > shennanigans. It appears to be fully operational. > > My question, then, is this: Is the access point I've set up not > actually functioning as an access point in the strictest sense > of the term? Is the Handbook in need of a little attention in > this area? > > I'll happily create a patch for the doc and submit a PR to > have it updated, but just wanted to check before doing so that > I'm not just being an idiot (I'm particularly good at that!). > > Thanks all! > -- > Nick Withers > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.nickwithers.com > Mobile: +61 414 397 446 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"