Unable to clone wlan device

[Vladimir Terziev]

The actual problem, i play with wlan cloning because of, is, i try to
set up a FreeBSD based wireless access point either based on ral(4) or
iwi(4) interface.

The ral(4) (which is "Edimax EW-7128g") seems more suitable for that,
since it has HOSTAP capability, but when i tried to run a hostapd(8) on
it, i got an error about inability TKIP to be configured by hostpad(8).
Since TKIP is not present as a capability of the wireless adapter, i
decided to clone it and use the wlan_tkip(4) module to do the work.

Thanks for your time!

Regards,

Vladimir


On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 13:08 +0300, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 6/9/09, Vladimir Terziev <vladimirt at partygaming.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Paul,
> >
> > i have tried the same with ral(4) device and got a similar result.
> >
> > What about ral(4), does it support virtual interfaces ?
> 
> No it doesn't. The only chips capable of multi bssid I'm aware of
> are atheros ones and only on >= 8.0.
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:34 +0300, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> >> wlan cloning is only available on 8.0, and iwi supports only one
> >> virtual
> >> interface at any time.
> 
> --
> Paul
> 
> 

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