Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point
from Warren Block: It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Most of the time, the FreeBSD system is just a client trying to connect to the access point. This article shows how to set that up both in /etc/rc.conf and manually with commands: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html Thanks for helpful link. I don't think I can try it now. Now I can't get Internet access through the wireless router, even though the computer sees it. I now have a TPLink wireless router on order, scheduled to be delivered today. I get Internet access by directly connecting the Ethernet cable from computer to cable modem, but this is only good for one computer at a time. I was unable to connect with USB wireless adapter Hiro H50191, driver rsu, though FreeBSD recognized this adapter. I couldn't find any networks by scanning. Maybe that could be related to wireless router gradually failing? I did read the FreeBSD Handbook chapter on wireless networking, and subsequently googled for info on wi-fi setup in Linux. Tom ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Warren Block: It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Most of the time, the FreeBSD system is just a client trying to connect to the access point. This article shows how to set that up both in /etc/rc.conf and manually with commands: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html Thanks for helpful link. I don't think I can try it now. Now I can't get Internet access through the wireless router, even though the computer sees it. I now have a TPLink wireless router on order, scheduled to be delivered today. I get Internet access by directly connecting the Ethernet cable from computer to cable modem, but this is only good for one computer at a time. I was unable to connect with USB wireless adapter Hiro H50191, driver rsu, though FreeBSD recognized this adapter. I couldn't find any networks by scanning. Maybe that could be related to wireless router gradually failing? That can happen. Sometimes, it's the cheap wall-wart AC adapter that fails. Sometimes the capacitors inside the router itself go bad. If you have moved equipment around, make certain the AC adapter plugged into the router is actually the right one for it. I once spent a couple of days de-bricking a Linksys that just would not work. It had a Linksys 9V AC adapter... that was actually from another Linksys unit. With a 12V adapter, it was fine. ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point
from Warren Block and my previous message: I now have a TPLink wireless router on order, scheduled to be delivered today. I get Internet access by directly connecting the Ethernet cable from computer to cable modem, but this is only good for one computer at a time. I was unable to connect with USB wireless adapter Hiro H50191, driver rsu, though FreeBSD recognized this adapter. I couldn't find any networks by scanning. Maybe that could be related to wireless router gradually failing? That can happen. Sometimes, it's the cheap wall-wart AC adapter that fails. Sometimes the capacitors inside the router itself go bad. If you have moved equipment around, make certain the AC adapter plugged into the router is actually the right one for it. I once spent a couple of days de-bricking a Linksys that just would not work. It had a Linksys 9V AC adapter... that was actually from another Linksys unit. With a 12V adapter, it was fine. I guess you had a power shortage before you used the 12V adapter. I would use the adapter that comes with the router package. I don't really want to try the wireless with a faulty router, might fail to work when it would work with a good router. Now the new TP-Link router has arrived, but I just opened the package. Tom ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Warren Block and my previous message: hostap is to make a FreeBSD system with a wireless card into a wireless router. Access point, if I understand correctly, would have a wired connection, such as cable or DSL, and the other computer, with the wireless adapter, would have the Atheros or other wireless adapter. No, a router generally has at least two network interfaces. A FreeBSD wireless router would have both wired and wireless interfaces. I have a wireless router, but not a FreeBSD wireless router as such. Wireless router has four Ethernet ports and a little antenna, is connected by an Ethernet cable to a cable modem which is in turn connected to cable jack. If this router is the access point, I guess I wouldn't use hostap on ifconfig command line. Use wlanmode sta in ifconfig? It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Most of the time, the FreeBSD system is just a client trying to connect to the access point. This article shows how to set that up both in /etc/rc.conf and manually with commands: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Question about online ath man page regarding access point
I see in the man page for ath, and assume much would apply to other wireless adapters, Create an 802.11g host-based access point: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode hostap ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xff00 ssid my_ap \ mode 11g but would the access point, with wired connection, have or use the wireless adapter? Access point, if I understand correctly, would have a wired connection, such as cable or DSL, and the other computer, with the wireless adapter, would have the Atheros or other wireless adapter. Or is this done from the wireless client? Situation I'm thinking of is where a wireless router has Ethernet connection and perheps one computer connects by Ethernet, and one or more other computers or wireless devices want to connect wirelessly. Tom ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question about online ath man page regarding access point
from Warren Block and my previous message: hostap is to make a FreeBSD system with a wireless card into a wireless router. Access point, if I understand correctly, would have a wired connection, such as cable or DSL, and the other computer, with the wireless adapter, would have the Atheros or other wireless adapter. No, a router generally has at least two network interfaces. A FreeBSD wireless router would have both wired and wireless interfaces. I have a wireless router, but not a FreeBSD wireless router as such. Wireless router has four Ethernet ports and a little antenna, is connected by an Ethernet cable to a cable modem which is in turn connected to cable jack. If this router is the access point, I guess I wouldn't use hostap on ifconfig command line. Use wlanmode sta in ifconfig? Tom ___ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
