From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 3 7:58:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1ACD37B4F9 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix6.panix.com (panix6.panix.com [166.84.0.231]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DF88F05 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:58:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from evenson@localhost) by panix6.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id KAA10365; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:58:03 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: panix6.panix.com: evenson set sender to evenson@panix.com using -f To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: using WaveLAN with Apple Airport base station From: Mark Evenson Date: 03 Nov 2000 10:58:03 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 28 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am rather stumped in getting a FreeBSD laptop talking to an Apple Airport base station, and would appreciate any help that people could give me. Pointers to sources of information would be appreciated, as my knowledge of 802.11 is very nascent. I have an Apple Airport working fine with an Airport card in a Powerbook, but no combination of mucking with wicontrol(1) gets a WaveLAN Gold card to join the network. I am running 4_STABLE on the laptop which has the Gold card to which pccardd attaches just fine. I have tried both disabling WEP encryption, and enabling it (using the proper "Network Equivalent Password"). I have tried both IBSS (using both the proper name and the parameter ANY') and ad-hoc on the card. The Airport base station is configured to not "create a closed network". Are Gold cards (what is in the laptop) fundamentally unable to talk to Silver cards (what the both the Airport base station and card are)? Any ideas? -- Mark Evenson "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message