On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Jesse Callaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bonsaime@gmail.com">bonsaime@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Jonathan <<a href="mailto:jonathan@kc8onw.net">jonathan@kc8onw.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Has anyone here had any experience setting up a BSD wireless access<br>
> point? I'd really like to do an AP/Wireless Bridge combo setup but I'm<br>
> not sure that is even possible with FreeBSD. It appears that drivers<br>
> for current wireless hardware (802.11n) are still hard to come by for<br>
> FreeBSD as well. (I realize iwn is in -current but it doesn't support<br>
> hostap)<br>
><br>
> I'm starting to think it may be much simpler to buy a hardware AP/Bridge<br>
> or router as I have a spare wired interface I could connect it to. If<br>
> anyone has any hardware recommendations for this (or non-recommendations<br>
> for crappy stuff) I would welcome them.<br>
><br>
> Thank you,<br>
> Jonathan<br>
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</div></div>I've not had good luck with BSD as an AP. Run away.<br>
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-jesse<br>
</font><div></div></blockquote><div><br>Strange. I use an Atheros card on FreeBSD 6.2, and it works fine.<br>I'm not using hostapd, just using ifconfig to set the card's mode to hostap ("mediaopt hostap"),<br>
and there's a dhcpd behind it. No issues to speak of.<br><br>...maybe I'm doing something wrong.<br></div></div><br>