From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jun 10 15:15:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moaner.org (moaner.org [209.228.7.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D28537B403 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@peterson.org) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moaner.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5AMFY506712; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@peterson.org) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:15:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Peterson X-X-Sender: To: Dan Langille Cc: Subject: Re: WiFi / ESSID and wi0 In-Reply-To: <200106102154.f5ALsWU70000@lists.unixathome.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 In short, an ESSID = a group of SSID's (common network name shared across multiple AP's for roaming support). Since they're providing AP's, put your card into BSS (wicontrol -p 1) mode and explicitly specify the network name (wicontrol -n "DMTF"). --Matt Peterson Bay Area Wireless Users Group On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Dan Langille wrote: > I"m attending a conference on Monday where they are providing > wireless acess points. Their instructions include: > > "You will need to use a WiFi wireless network device, choose 'DMTF' as > the ESSID (Extended Service Set ID) and be configured to use DHCP > with no encryption." > > The DHCP bit I can configure. > > I have an Orinoco Silver card from Lucent technologies (and it has WiFi) > printed on it. Looking at man wicontrol, I see: > > -i iface -q SSID > Specify the name of an IBSS (SSID) to create on a given in- > terface. The SSID can be any text string up to 30 characters > long. > > Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes only: > enabling the creation of an IBSS on a host system doesn't > appear to actually work. > > So can I use SSID instead of ESSID? I also have a gold card if that > makes much difference. > > thanks. > > -- > Dan Langille > pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message