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

[Paul B Mahol]

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

> and got:
>
>
> wlan0
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
>
> But suddenly the wlan0 device is there.
>
> Can anybody fill me in?
>
> --
> Christoph
>
>
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Paul B Mahol