Hi
2009/8/11 Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>:
>> I was trying to set up access point with B "Realtek RTL8187" wireless
>> card on 4.5.
>> After looking into the manpage I thought it has "mediaopt hostap"
capability,
>>
>> --------
>> B B B The following hostname.if(5) example creates a host-based access
point on
>> B B B boot:
>>
>> B B B B B B inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect \
>> B B B B B B B B B B mediaopt hostap nwid my_net chan 11
>> --------
>
> That is a driver independent page. B It suggests what might be capable.
Errr ... Maybe I was not specific enough. I'm talking about 'man 4
urtw'. How can it be driver independent ?
[...]
>> Are there any plans to add hostap mode to urtw(4) driver ?
>
> Perhaps.
I guess it means nothing changed in -current. Well, I have to find
some other USB card then. Can you recommend something ?
> The urtw man page does not currently include those features.
>
>> May I suggest to delete those lines from the manpage. It misled me.
>
> Certainly not.
I've just checked and I also see in 'urtw(4)' manpage that driver can
operate in IBSS ad-hoc mode, but I can't do it.
mycastle:~ # ifconfig urtw0 media|grep -i ibss || echo nope
nope
mycastle:~ # ifconfig urtw0
urtw0: flags=8b02<BROADCAST,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:e0:4c:03:38:86
priority: 0
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11b)
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid "" 100dBm
mycastle:~ # ifconfig urtw0 nwid test mediaopt ibss
mycastle:~ # ifconfig urtw0
urtw0: flags=8b02<BROADCAST,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:e0:4c:03:38:86
priority: 0
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1)
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid test 100dBm
Am I doing something wrong or is it mistake in the manpage ?
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Regards
Piotr Kapczuk
