Re: OpenBSD Access Point? (Summary)

2010-12-15 Thread Cato Auestad
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Lists Account li...@y42.org wrote: There he mentions that support from the hostap daemon - hostapd(8) - is also necessary for such a configuration. Something else that I hadn't realised. I believe this[0] is the overview I used to see if my driver had support

Re: OpenBSD Access Point? (Summary)

2010-12-15 Thread Damon McMahon
Account li...@y42.org To: misc@openbsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:29:14 +0100 Subject: Re: OpenBSD Access Point? (Summary) Hi All, Summarising, for future reference... I received some six responses. Overall the feedback was a little disappointing. Three responses suggested that it would

Re: OpenBSD Access Point? (Summary)

2010-12-15 Thread Russell
On 12/13/2010 04:29 AM, Lists Account wrote: Hi All, Summarising, for future reference... I received some six responses. Overall the feedback was a little disappointing. Three responses suggested that it would be easier/less time consuming/more stable to simply connect a consumer access point

Re: OpenBSD Access Point? (Summary)

2010-12-13 Thread Lists Account
Hi All, Summarising, for future reference... I received some six responses. Overall the feedback was a little disappointing. Three responses suggested that it would be easier/less time consuming/more stable to simply connect a consumer access point device via Ethernet. Of course, I wouldn't

Re: OpenBSD Access Point? (Summary)

2010-12-13 Thread Ing. Alexander
Hi. On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 13:29 +0100, Lists Account wrote: Hi All, Summarising, for future reference... I received some six responses. Overall the feedback was a little disappointing. Three responses suggested that it would be easier/less time consuming/more stable to simply connect a

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-09 Thread Cato Auestad
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Lists Account li...@y42.org wrote: Hi All, First post to misc. I'd like to create an OpenBSD based router + wifi access point. I thought I might buy myself one of these for Christmas: I'm not sure whether this is useful for you or not, but I wrote this down

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-09 Thread Kurt Mosiejczuk
Todd Carson wrote: Which chip/card is it, if you don't mind? I have issues with my RT2561 and am considering trying to replace it. (To be specific, it sometimes stops accepting association requests and requires a power cycle -- not just an ifconfig down/up or warm reboot -- to be reset. I

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-08 Thread iproudlyeat...@gmail.com
But neither the ath or athn man pages mention the older AR5414 chip at all If it's not mentioned on the man pages it might (or may not) work with (or without) issues, so go with the athn(4). I have an AR5413 (Wistron DCMA81) on an alix 2c1 configured as a BSS, and have lots of problems: no 11g;

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-08 Thread Kurt Mosiejczuk
Lists Account wrote: First post to misc. I'd like to create an OpenBSD based router + wifi access point. I thought I might buy myself one of these for Christmas: [Stuff about PC and ath deleted] Any suggestions on how to go forward here? Is the project feasible and which of these components

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-08 Thread Todd Carson
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 01:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: I use a ralink PCI card I got from monoprice. I had issues at one point that were related to a bug in the hardware. A patch in the 4.7 or 4.8 timeframe fixed it. Been very reliable since then. Which chip/card is it, if you

OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-07 Thread Lists Account
Hi All, First post to misc. I'd like to create an OpenBSD based router + wifi access point. I thought I might buy myself one of these for Christmas: PC Engines ALIX 2D13: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm That's a AMD Geode LX800 with on-board serial, Ethernet (3), USB and miniPCI. The

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-07 Thread David Higgs
I just assembled my ALIX 2d13, and had a similar discussion (check the archives). But I had to make some compromises. 802.11n isn't supported by OpenBSD yet. Period. Simple consultation of the driver man pages would have noted that. I also believe that all drivers that support hostap also

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-07 Thread Josh Smith
I agree I use openbsd for my home router but hang an access point off of an Ethernet port for my wifi access. On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, David Higgs hig...@gmail.com wrote: I just assembled my ALIX 2d13, and had a similar discussion (check the archives). B But I had to make some compromises.

Re: OpenBSD Access Point?

2010-12-07 Thread Emille Blanc
On 10-12-07 4:26 PM, Josh Smith wrote: I agree I use openbsd for my home router but hang an access point off of an Ethernet port for my wifi access. +1. I used to run an assortment of ath(4) or ral(4) cards in my WRAP.1e2 boards, but there always seems to be some niggling problem with them.