Building an access point with FreeBSD

Christoph Kukulies kuku at kukulies.org
Wed Nov 12 03:31:05 PST 2008


Marten Vijn schrieb:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 18:20 +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? 
>>     
>
> ifconfig rum0 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap ssid bert channel 1
>
> if the device supports it.
>   

Fantastic. So easy! And it works.
--
Christoph

> man ifconfig for many more details 
>
> cheers
> Marten
>   



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