rum0 acting as an Access point (belkin router) 8.0 R

[Christoph Kukulies]

Craig Butler schrieb:
> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:25 +0100, Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
>   
>> in my rc.conf:
>> ifconfig_rum0="DHCP wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0xBC45AD1BD5 ssid
>> ReseauWIFI"
>>
>> Maybe your problem is that wepkey is malformatted in your command
>> If not, I didn't try to understand, but I also had troubles with the
>> position of SSID keyword.
>> (ifconfig arg error, might be your problem)
>> (btw: I also had problem with ssid containing spaced characters)
>>
>>
>> Later, I tried to set it up as an hostap, it seems to work well.
>> But when I try to connect from an other computer, I'm unable to to join the
>> network.
>> (running under 7.2, I compiled the kernel adding a define matching my
>> device, based on a similar (I hope so...) chipset)
>>
>>
>> good luck
>>
>>
>> Samuel Martín Moro
>> CamTrace
>> {EPITECH.} tek4
>>
>> "Nobody wants to say how this works.
>>  Maybe nobody knows ..."
>>                      Xorg.conf(5)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org>wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Paul B Mahol schrieb:
>>>
>>>  On 1/15/10, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>         
>>>>> I'm not sure wether syntax has changed but I wanted to cretae an wlan
>>>>> acess point
>>>>> and tried various things. Under 7.0 I got it working with the following
>>>>> command
>>>>>
>>>>> ifconfig rum0 inet 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap ssid CITYOFFICE  wepmode
>>>>> on wepkey 0xf00baf00ba weptxkey 1 channel 1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried this but got a socket error "Invalid argument".
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I tried (from an example in the rum (4) manpage):ifconfig wlan
>>>>> create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 mediaopt hostap CITYOFFICE wepmode on
>>>>> wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa  weptxkey 1 channel 1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Perhaps you want this one:
>>>>
>>>> ifconfig wlan create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 wlanmode hostap ssid
>>>> CITYOFFICE wepmode on wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa  weptxkey 1 channel 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I tried this in rc.conf:
>>>
>>> ifconfig_rum0="wlan create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 wlanmode hostap ssid
>>> CITYOFFICE  wepmode on wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa weptxkey 1 channel 1"
>>>
>>> I got this:
>>>
>>> rum0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>>>       ether 00:11:50:cb:52:10
>>>       media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <adhoc> (autoselect
>>> <adhoc>)
>>>       status: no carrier
>>>
>>>
>>> Why "no carrier"?
>>> And I would expect more info on the interface like SSID and such.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
>>>  and got:
>>>       
>>>>> wlan0
>>>>> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
>>>>>
>>>>> But suddenly the wlan0 device is there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anybody fill me in?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Christoph
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>
> Wireless changed on 8, you have to define wlans in rc.conf then set the
>   

That's why I'm asking :)

> network up onto the appropriate wlan entry;
>
> example;
>
> wlans_wpi0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>
> Regards
>
> Craig B
>
>   

Thanks Craig, and also Paul. It looks a bitt better now though still not 
perfect. I don't see the SSID on the network yet
(I filled in a bogus wepkey for posting here, of course):

rc.conf:
wlans_rum0="wlan0"
network_interfaces="lo0 rl0 wlan0" # List of network interfaces (or "auto").
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device configuration.
ifconfig_rl0="inet 172.27.4.219 netmask 255.255.248.0"
ifconfig_wlan0="wlan create wlandev rum0 10.0.0.1/24 wlanmode hostap 
ssid Aachen
 wepmode on wepkey 0xf00baaf00baa  weptxkey 1 channel 1"
defaultrouter="172.27.2.116"

ifconfig:
rum0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:11:50:cb:52:10
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:11:50:cb:52:10
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid "" channel 10 (2457 Mhz 11g)
        country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
        bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5
        protmode CTS bintval 0

Note, that I would like to build up an AP, not a peer to peer or WLAN 
client.

--
Christoph