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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:16:25 +0200
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
To:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: iwn adhoc mode
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > and when I try to setup the connection manually with ifconfig I get
>> > ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Operation not supported
>> > and from reading older postings it seems that iwn has a problem with
>> > ad-hoc
>> > mode.
>>
>> Indeed, adding Adhoc/IBSS support to iwn(4) is *still* on my TODO list.
>>
>> --
>> Bernhard
>
>
> Thanks for clarifying. Do you have an ETA for it as well? ;)

Not really.. not soon I guess.

> In the meantime maybe the IWN(4) should not claim support for adhoc, or is
> it supported on some cards and not on others?

There was some basic, half-working, support before I've touched the
code, back when only 4965 was supported. I guess the manpage needs
indeed some updating.

-- 
Bernhard



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