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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:58:20 -0500
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WaveLan woes
Message-ID:  <20000124115820.C19530@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000124114805.A38465@freebie.brann.org>; from john@brann.org on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:48:05AM -0500
References:  <20000124114805.A38465@freebie.brann.org>

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John Brann <john@brann.org> probably said:
> I have a small wireless network of laptops talking through a ground station

> Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):		[ 3 ]

> The WavePoint does not pick up the packets.  There is no corresponding
> flash on the WavePoint's traffic light.

> All hardware is working OK, rebooting the machine into NT, using the same
> card, works fine.

You're in ad-hoc mode (to talk to other cards). See wicontrol to put
the card into BSS mode and talk to the base station.

You can put this in the pccard.conf entry if it's what you always want
or in a script later otherwise.

P.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu



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