From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Aug 5 13:13:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285B237B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5428143E4A for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from help@pdscc.com) Received: from jakar-2 ([64.180.126.195]) by priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.02 201-253-122-122-102-20011128) with ESMTP id <20020805201224.HJXK5909.priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2>; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:12:24 -0600 From: "Harondel J. Sibble" Organization: Sibble Computer Consulting To: "M. Warner Losh" Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:12:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: problems with freebsd access point setup as per sysadmin mag Reply-To: help@pdscc.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20020804.231237.09568276.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20020804232704.QYQF3365.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> X-LINE1: ABCDEF0123456789 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-Id: <20020805201224.HJXK5909.priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 4 Aug 2002 at 23:12, M. Warner Losh wrote: > The methods described in the sysadmin magazine is not a "Access > Point," in the normal sense of the word. Chances are you are running > into the quagmire that's known as ad-hoc modes (ibss, ibss + create, > and demo ad-hoc). After digging through the wicontrol man pages, I started getting that suspicion. > The long and the short of it is that you need FreeBSD-stable and > hostap to make this work reliably. I am slightly new to FreeBSD, so need to know one thing. which version of stable do I need? 4.6? or will 4.5 do. I am currently running 4.5 (February 2002 cd - 4 disc set) from the Freebsdmall.com folks. Another fellow mentioned getting things working wirh hostap, going to look into that now. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. help@pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message