Re: getting wi running as a bridge
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
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"Dan Langille" <[email protected]> writes:
: I have both a wireless NIC (wi0) and an ethernet card (ed1) for my
: laptop. Both are up and running (the laptop via DHCP, FWIW).
:
: My wireless network consists of two wireless cards running in ad-hoc
: mode (one is an Orinoco gold in a workstation, the other a silver in
: the laptop). On the workstation, I'm trying what man wi says about
: bridges in order to get "approximately the same functionality as an
: access point". Namely this:
:
: # ifconfig wi0 inet up ssid my_ap mediaopt hostap
: # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1
: # sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg="wi0 rl0"
: # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
:
: I get stuck at the first step:
:
: # ifconfig wi0 inet up ssid my_ap mediaopt hostap
: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured
:
: What's up?
You can't use orinoco cards in hostap mode.
Warner
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