On 2012-03-21, Alan Corey <[email protected]> wrote: > Along comes a Kindle Fire which is helpless without WiFi, so I need to make > a WiFi access point. Of the 4 wireless cards I've got, the ones that are > supported by OpenBSD can't be access points (according to their drivers' man > pages). I've got a US Robotics 8054 WiFi router (it was free) which I'd > like to hang off my LAN somehow, except that's not quite what it was made > for. The 8054's got its own internal DHCP server (which can be turned off). > When I use it, it doesn't seem to be passing the gateway and DHCP server > addresses along to the Kindle, just an IP address from its pool. It also > wants to be a router/firewall.
The rest of your network isn't described in your email and I don't know this particular device, but usually to bypass the 'router' functions you would want to disable internal dhcp on the wifi router, and connect the *LAN* side of the wifi router to your network somehow. Either via a normal switch port on your lan, or (safer) to a different interface on a firewall with a separate address range so it can segregated. > Knowing how to tell what's being passed by a DHCP server would also help. > The Kindle's not a very good diagnostic tool. How about trying to connect an OpenBSD box with a wifi card to the access point? You could run tcpdump to see what packets are flowing.
