I am working on a post about the wireless ap I built using FreeBSD, but in the mean time I thought I’d post on a few personal items.
First, I am hacking away on various at home projects, not the least of which is the aforementioned wireless access point. That was a blast, and I hope record the steps I took in decent detail for the post. In fact, I am connected to my lan via said ap right now.
Eventually it will be my only access point, and router, but I am planning a vacation for July (to a beach house with no net), and I want to take it with me. I plan to use the GSM modem I bought as the wan interface, and the atheros card I put in there on the lan side. To that end, I thought I should get the ap working first.
Running is going ok. I am not at my peak performance. I decided about a month ago to try an experiment. I stopped using my orthotics to see if that helped my heel pain. And while my heel does feel a little better (at least I think it does) my knees have been aching a lot in protest to the new gait I am sure I have developed.
So I am sitting here currently with ice packs on my knees, eating advil.
And one of my cats has flown the coop… No not gone off to college, though that would be great, he has gone to live with my girlfriend. I am slowly, moving my dudes to her place so they are not so alone all the time. And Alex needed dental surgery, so while he was under, I had him declawed. I don’t advocate declawing, and hadn’t gotten my guys declawed. However, Shelly has 2 cats, neither with claws and furiniature that doesn’t look like it came out of a frat house, so we decided to get my guys done. When Alex first came home I thought I had made a huge mistake and felt pretty awful about having it done, but a week later, he seems just as happy and healthy as ever. So in the end I am cool with it.
Well, it’s time to take the ice off my knees, so I will see you all later.
Happy catting!
What hardware did you use for your FreeBSD WAP? I’d like to do something similar so I can run multiple BSSIDs on separate VLANs (an open one that just goes to the Internet, rate limited; and a second WPA2-enabled one that is bridged to my LAN).
Doug,
A friend had given me a wireless-pci card, that just happened to have an atheros chipset in it. pciconf shows it as:
ath0@pci0:0:5:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00261737 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
device = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
I recommend the Atheros stuff, only because I have had great luck with it on FreeBSD. I have a Atheros MiniPCI card in my laptop as well that works great.
What about the server itself? Just a standard desktop, or some more embedded-type thing?
Yep. The server itself is this guy:
But I hope to make it this jetway box in the near future: