Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:33:29 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: Kan Cai <kcai@cs.ubc.ca> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad-hoc wireless mode and ticks (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0303040625100.36608-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0303032006460.22950@granville.cs.ubc.ca>
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Kan Cai wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:10:26PM -0800, Kan Cai wrote: > > > > > > Feel a little confused with the ad-hoc mode set by "wicontrol -p 3", is > > > it Lucent ad-hoc mode instead of the standard IEEE ad-hoc mode (IBSS). > > > > > > After I use "-p 3" option, it cannot talk to Linux/Windows ad-hoc > > > wireless station. But if I set it to "-p 4", it can do the job. However, I > > > cannot find this option in wicontrol man page or anywhere. Could somebody > > > explain me what's going on here? > > > > Not that it makes a difference (yet), but wicontrol is deprecated and > > (I think) is being removed sooner or later. You should instead use > > ifconfig to configure wireless interfaces. To be honest, I'm not sure > > how a new user is supposed to know that. I only know this from watching > > the mailing lists. > > > > Maybe the wicontrol(8) man page should be updated? > > > > I also hope this man page should be updated > > > Anyways, read through the wi(4) man page. It will explain the various > > modes and has some examples. You might also want to look at the > > ifconfig(8) man page for a listing of available options to configure > > devices with. > > > > But when I set the option "mediaopt ibss", I cannot set it back to the AP > mode, or how should I (the ibss-master? it does not work for me)?. I do > not want this wireless station to be the hostAP itself. I have a couple of SBCs talking with wicontrol -p 3 set on both and they work quite well. Note these are Orinoco cards and for some reason they won't talk to a windows machine in ad-hoc mode. Between FreeBSD machines just make sure they're both on the same channel and have the same netname. On FreeBSD 4.7 wicontrol still works fine although ifconfig is recommended. On 5.0 you'll want to use ifconfig for most things, but some functionality was added to wicontrol. Vince. -- Fast, inexpensive internet service 56k and beyond! http://www.pop4.net/ http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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