Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:42:46 -0700 From: Tony Toole <tony@valemount.com> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Tony Toole <tony@valemount.com> Subject: Re: getting wi running as a bridge Message-ID: <91D3A580-D1D3-11D6-9B61-000393B65F9E@valemount.com> In-Reply-To: <20020926.213609.03686867.imp@bsdimp.com>
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The Orinoco firmware has a complete WDS implementation in both the Station and Tertiary firmware. To set up a WDS link, simply throw the card into port 2 (WDS), and set the corresponding station's MAC address using RID 0xFC08. All traffic between stations will be done on MAC port 0. All you have to do is make sure each station has the same channel. ESSID is not used. It shouldn't be that hard to implement this in an existing BSD driver. This link can be bridged. Good luck On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 08:36 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020926112828.N52066-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> > Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> writes: > : > To obtain a real 802.11 bridge, you need the cards to be able to > run in > : > so-called WDS mode, but I'm not even sure this is supported with > the > : > PRISM cards, let alone the Orinocos. > : > : Do you mean it's not supported by the driver in FreeBSD? I ask this > : because I have one of those Apple Airports (an older one), and they > use > : Orinoco Silver cards. > > Apple Airports load tertiary firmware into the Orinoco cards to get AP > functionality. There's also a FreeBSD driver for orinoco cards that > loads the AP firmware, but it is just not available to anybody at all > :-(. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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