Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Darryl Hoar
I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. -D ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+wireless+access+pointsourceid=mozilla-searchstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 -- Regards, Doug

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd port (dhcp server) ~j Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Thomas Beer
The NIC on the AP has to be able to support Host AP mode to work as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on example for this. Cheers Tom I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? just curious. -D

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? Install a prism 2 card and do something like (assuming fxp0 is your upstream iface and wi0 your card in AP mode). rc.conf

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 23 April 2004 08:01 am, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Probably. I'm not too familiar with how the ad-hoc connections work, but i am certain that for a single client it would work. Just get a wireless NIC in it, play a little routing magic, maybe look at the dhcpd port (dhcp server) ~j

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Paul Tan
Try this URL: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm :D cheers, Paul Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. -

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Thomas Beer wrote: The NIC on the AP has to be able to support Host AP mode to work as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on example for this. Cheers Tom I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:55:38AM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure this machine to be a wireless access point ? Check out the handbook on your machine, in /usr/share/doc/ for the chapter on advanced networking; specifically the page