Thank you very much, Carlos! That explains a lot, and you probably just saved me many more hours of frustration.
I purchased this WiFi device with my new APU2. Is there a guide or list to find decent devices which will support hostap mode? I'm not quite sure what to look for when reading specs or driver man pages. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Gateway - Cannot bring WiFi up or broadcast ssid > Local Time: October 29, 2017 9:26 PM > UTC Time: October 30, 2017 1:26 AM > From: [email protected] > To: Kurtis <[email protected]> > [email protected] <[email protected]> > > On 10/29/17 17:51, Kurtis wrote: > >> I am configuring my home gateway. Being enthusiastically new to >> OpenBSD, I followed the directions here along with other various >> bits of documentation along the way: >> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html >> Unfortunately, I can't seem to understand how to bring my WiFi >> network "up" and broadcast my SSID. Here is output from >> ifconfig: >> iwm0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >> lladdr f0:42:1c:80:df:90 >> index 4 priority 4 llprio 3 >> groups: wlan >> media: IEEE802.11 autoselect >> status: no network >> ieee80211: nwid <censored ssid> chan 1 wpakey <censored key> wpaprotos wpa2 >> wpaakms psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp >> inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 >> Running these commands don't seem to do anything: >> >> ifconfig iwm0 up >> >> ifconfig iwm0 up scan >> >> Here is my /etc/hostname.iwm0 file: >> >> cat /etc/hostname.iwm0 >> >> media autoselect mode 11n mediaopt hostap chan 1 >> nwid <censored ssid> >> wpakey <censored key/password> >> inet 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 >> dmesg output: >> >> dmesg | grep "iwm0" >> >> iwm0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7260" rev 0xc3, >> msi >> iwm0: hw rev 0x140, fw ver 16.242414.0, address f0:42:1c:80:df:90 >> I'd appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction on how to better >> debug, learn, or otherwise get this working. > > Hi Kurtis, > > iwm(4) doesn't support hostap mode. You might want to check out a compatible > ath(4) or athn(4) card. > > +--+ > Carlos
