Couple of thoughts:

* Do you really want a bssid, or are you just looking for a network ID (nwid)? If you're just trying to create a hostap-style access point, no need to bother with a bssid, just set the nwid.

* If you mean to set the bssid, are you sure your card is operating in BSS mode? See wicontrol(8) and its -p flag.

If you want to set this box up as an AP, contact me off-list -- I have the exact same card running as an AP, and you can essentially duplicate my setup.

Alex Kirk

hi misc,

the man page for ifconfig is very concise for bssid. why isn't this correct?

$ sudo ifconfig wi0 bssid "00:13:10:e8:9f:44"
ifconfig: SIOCS80211BSSID: Invalid argument
$

thanks for your help. (more info follows)

lucas

--

$ uname -a
OpenBSD release.wingedleopard.net 3.8 GENERIC#138 i386
$ ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        lladdr 00:80:c6:e3:1c:ff
        description: wifi uplink
        groups: egress
        media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS11)
        status: active
        ieee80211: nwid linksys 2dBm (auto)
        inet6 fe80::280:c6ff:fee3:1cff%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 192.168.1.75 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0
$ dmesg
OpenBSD 3.8 (GENERIC) #138: Sat Sep 10 15:41:37 MDT 2005
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium/MMX ("GenuineIntel" 586-class) 234 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX
cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed
real mem  = 100245504 (97896K)
avail mem = 84328448 (82352K)
using 1249 buffers containing 5115904 bytes (4996K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(63) BIOS, date 01/26/98, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd850
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd6a0/0x960
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf60/128 (6 entries)
pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found: ICU vendor 0xffff product 0xffff
pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "SIS 5597/5598 Host" rev 0x02
pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "SIS 85C503 System" rev 0x01
pciide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "SIS 5513 EIDE" rev 0xd0: 5597/5598:
DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE2.1A>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 2014MB, 4124736 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HITACHI, CDR-8335, 0008> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
ohci0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "SIS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x10: irq 3,
version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: SIS OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
dc0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "ADMtek AN983" rev 0x11: irq 12, address
00:04:5a:70:cd:18
acphy0 at dc0 phy 1: AC_UNKNOWN 10/100 PHY, rev. 0
wi0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "National Datacomm NCP130 Rev A2" rev 0x01: irq 9
wi0: PRISM2 HWB3163 rev.B (0x8003), Firmware 0.3.0 (primary), 1.4.9
(station), address 00:80:c6:e3:1c:ff
vga1 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "S3 Trio64V2/DX" rev 0x16
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask ed6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
pctr: 586-class performance counters and user-level cycle counter enabled
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
$

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