On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 06:59, Jason Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > You need to run hostapd (included in NetBSD) to do WPA-PSK and dhcpcd to > assign ip addresses. Also, there's a flag in ifconfig to put the wlan in AP > mode. This link is old but seems to cover what you need to do to set up an AP > under NetBSD: > > https://mrrooster.tumblr.com/post/62694672/netbsd-wpa-wireless-ap > > I think I'd set up the phone tether first because that might be problematic > as you're dealing with external hardware. The wireless AP stuff looks > straightforward (unless the WLAN Pi 3b driver doesn't support AP mode). You > can test that by running the ifconfig command (from the link) and try to get > the AP working with no encryption first. If those two things work check out > then this can definitely be done. > > But I don't know how to get NetBSD to use any phone that's plugged in to > tether automatically. Some phones might still appear as a serial connection > whereas others could use RNDIS (I don't know about getting that to work on > NetBSD).
Any Android phone from the last decade _should_ show up as urndis and Just Work with dhcpcd :) David
