On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Thomas Beer wrote:

> The NIC on the AP has to be able to support "Host AP" mode to work
> as an access point. Netgear MA 521 *with firmware 1.3* are on
> example for this.
>
> Cheers Tom
>
> > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it.  Can I configure
> > this machine to be a wireless access point ?
> >
> > just curious.

I do exactly this (well the Freebsd box is also a
firewall and samba,web,ldap,mail and a few other things server)
man wi will give a list of most of the cards that support HostAP
mode if i remember rightly.

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