Re: FreeBSD box as an Acess Point, again

On Wednesday 27 November 2002 23:00, Mike Avery wrote:
> Fourteen faq's later... as well as a few questions here, I'm still not
> getting it. Maybe I'm just going out of my way to make this hard for
> myself...

	There are two different DWL-650 cards. One of them has a Prism2 chipset, and 
the other has a Prism2.5. The first was sold as a card capable of 40-bit WEP, 
and the latter as a 128-bit WEP card.

	The first (Prism2) has some problems and I could not use it as an access 
point. The Prism2.5 card works, but it hangs with WEP enabled. I am using it 
as an access point with no WEP, using IPSec.

	This is the identification for the Prism2.5 card as seen in "dmesg":

wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:05:5d:5c:24:01
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.05

	My /etc/start_if.wi0

ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid ARNOR \
stationname NENUIAL media autoselect mediaopt hostap

	And my ifconfig output:
%ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
        ether 00:05:5d:5c:24:01
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap> (DS/2Mbps 
<hostap>)
        status: associated
        ssid ARNOR 1:ARNOR
        stationname NENUIAL
        channel 7 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        wepmode OFF weptxkey 1



	The old card (Prism2) seems to have problems; I cannot use it in my laptop 
(Toshiba Satellite 220CS) while the Prism2.5 works well (without WEP).


	Regards,




	Borja.



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