How to activate AP mode in configuration files?

spark_sara

I am using here FreeBSD 11.1; I am putting together a test system, and activating an AP mode in a Ralink wifi card with: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev run0 wlanmode hostap ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid UNITI mode 11g channel 1 (yeah, I do know I can use 5GHz but it is not my immediate concern). My question is, how may I configure this in boot time files/rc.conf? The 2nd line is pretty obvious I can create in rc.conf...

Originally asked by Rui F Ribeiro on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I ended up putting in /etc/rc.conf : wlans_run0="wlan0" create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap" ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid XXXXX mode 11g channel 1" It worked.

Full answer by Rui F Ribeiro: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/383646 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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