[Please wrap your lines to some reasonable line length...thanks.] If memory serves me right, staticblackz wrote:
> I am trying to build a hotspot for freebsd I was wondering how > something like this would be made, is there already one out there I > can use. I would need it to redirect users to some web page ran off > apache that can send their logon info to the radius server also > making it so they can't browse the net until they were authenticated > with the radius server. Recent beta versions of m0n0wall (a FreeBSD-based firewall) have captive portal support. I haven't tried this feature personally, but I'm pretty sure there's RADIUS support. http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ > My other problem is I am trying to set an > orinoco pcmcia card to ap-mode and it won't work it gives me the > error..."ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mediaopt): Device not configured" I > have tried many different ways to make this card work and it won't, > I use the command " ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xfffffff0 > ssid my_net channel 11 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt hostap up". If I > switch the device to ath1 for my atheros card ti works fine..I > REALLY need help with these 2 problems As another poster pointed out, I don't think the Hermes-based cards can do hostap mode. The Prism- and Atheros-based cards can. See the wi(4) and ath(4) manual pages for more details. Bruce.
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