Re: problems with freebsd access point setup as per sysadmin mag
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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"Harondel J. Sibble" <[email protected]> writes:
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: On 4 Aug 2002 at 23:12, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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: > The methods described in the sysadmin magazine is not a "Access
: > Point," in the normal sense of the word. Chances are you are running
: > into the quagmire that's known as ad-hoc modes (ibss, ibss + create,
: > and demo ad-hoc).
: After digging through the wicontrol man pages, I started getting that
: suspicion.
:
: > The long and the short of it is that you need FreeBSD-stable and
: > hostap to make this work reliably.
: I am slightly new to FreeBSD, so need to know one thing. which version of
: stable do I need? 4.6? or will 4.5 do. I am currently running 4.5 (February
: 2002 cd - 4 disc set) from the Freebsdmall.com folks.
:
: Another fellow mentioned getting things working wirh hostap, going to look
: into that now.
You need FreeBSD-stable as of yesterday. this isn't on the 4.5 or 4.6
set, as it is brand-spankin' new functionality.
Warner
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