On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:23, Erik Richards wrote:
This is my first submission to a freebsd mailing list so please bare with
me. I am relatively new to Freebsd but I have so far set up a box at home
acting as a gateway, firewall, and webserver with php and I'm really loving
this OS (my version is 6.0).
Great! Consider following the upgrade instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook to
bring your system up to 6.2-PRERELEASE or 6.2-RELEASE once it's released.
Now I would like to create an access point.
I have a wireless card (Linksys wmp54gs, Broadcom 4318 chipset) I have read
that I need to use ndiswrapper and windows xp drivers for it to work under
Freebsd. And I need to use hostapd when configuring the card to act as an
access point correct? I have found documentation on these two separate
issues but nothing combining them? My question is, is it possible to use
my linksys card under freebsd and set it up as an access point, or is it
only possible with native drivers?
You don't need hostapd to create an access point. If your card and the driver
it uses support it, you can create an access point using just ifconfig.
Unfortunately, the ndis driver does not support hostap mode so you can not
create a traditional infrastructure access point. However you should be
able to create an ad-hoc network by doing something like this:
ifconfig ndis0 inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid your_net mediaopt adhoc
Substitute the device name, IP address, netmask, and your desired ssid above
as appropriate.
The other wireless stations on your network will also need to be set
to ad-hoc mode using the same ssid.
I've also set up my gateway and all the
computers behind it using static ips so will I still be able to make
wireless work similarly?
Yep, should be no problem.
I would also like to use WPA with my wireless setup.
This should be possible using ndis, but I don't remember for sure offhand.
I almost forgot, I have 2 wired nic cards in my Freebsd box the one
I have connected to my inside LAN will I have to bride with my wlan card so
my wireless connections can get out to the internet?
That's one option (see man 4 if_bridge), but I've found that it's easier just
to have an external subnet, a wired internal subnet and a wireless internal
subnet and let the FreeBSD box route between them. Since you've already set
the box up as a gateway, this should be completely painless (you may not even
need to do anything other than assign an IP on the new subnet to your
wireless card).
Thank you all very much for your help.
Sure.
JN
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