Building an access point with FreeBSD

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Tue Nov 11 10:58:20 PST 2008


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:20:38PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I have an USB Belkin 802.11g WLAN card and would like to build an access 
> point from it
> using FreeBSD 7.1. The device is rum0 and it seems to be recognized by 
> the kernel.
> 
> What is the control program for this interface? ancontrol doesn't seem 
> to work. wicontrol isn't there
> at all on my system.

ifconfig(8) is used for configuring all network interfaces, wireless as well
as wired.  See also the wlan(4) and rum(4) manpages.






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