On 1/18/10, Christoph Kukulies <k...@kukulies.org> wrote:
> Paul B Mahol schrieb:
>> On 1/15/10, Christoph Kukulies <k...@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"?

You still did not created wlan0 interface:

Put

wlans_rum0="wlan0"

in rc.conf, and instead of

ifconfig_rum0=".....

use

ifconfig_wlan0=".....


-- 
Paul B Mahol
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