Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:23:01 -0700 From: Eric Kozowski <eric@svjava.com> To: Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS Message-ID: <20000826182301.C6587@schooner.svjava.com> In-Reply-To: <39A805D7.95A813AF@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; from T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:00:55PM %2B0100 References: <39A54A50.1151A1A@cs.ucl.ac.uk> <20000824104345.G12584@schooner.svjava.com> <39A805D7.95A813AF@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:00:55PM +0100, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > Eric Kozowski wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:16:16PM +0100, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Has anyone managed to configure a fbsd box as a Wavelan BS ? > > > > yes it's easy. which wavelan card are you using? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > Wavelan Orinoco...Silver (with the ISA bridge) > > I would like to know how but ...do you really mean that the fbsd box is > acting a base station with the wavelan card in *infrastructure* mode or > do you mean that the box operates in ad-hoc (peer to peer ) mode. Adhoc > mode is very easy...what I want is to have the fbsd base station act as > an access point where _many_ clients can associate....not just one.... > > so which of the two does the fbsd "wavelan BS" do ...adhoc mode (peer to > peer connection ) or infrastructure mode...??? a wavelan accesspoint operates in infrastructe mode, which means that the client can only talk to the base station/accesspoint. ad-hoc means clients can contact each other directly. the wi driver supports both modes. i'm running my wavelan gold card in BSS mode to an apple airport base station. > If it works in ad-hoc mode the PCF and DCF functions are not really > happening...which is what a BS is all about... not sure what you mean by pcf and dcf. i do know that power saving mode will not work in ad-hoc mode. > Don't you agree? (or anyone else) with what? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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