From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Aug 5 14: 5: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEED37B405 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332B243E84 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:04:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g75L4r9R068138; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:04:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 15:04:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020805.150446.114731968.imp@bsdimp.com> To: help@pdscc.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with freebsd access point setup as per sysadmin mag From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020805201224.HJXK5909.priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> References: <20020804232704.QYQF3365.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> <20020804.231237.09568276.imp@bsdimp.com> <20020805201224.HJXK5909.priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 message: <20020805201224.HJXK5909.priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net@jakar-2> "Harondel J. Sibble" writes: : : : On 4 Aug 2002 at 23:12, M. Warner Losh wrote: : : > The methods described in the sysadmin magazine is not a "Access : > Point," in the normal sense of the word. Chances are you are running : > into the quagmire that's known as ad-hoc modes (ibss, ibss + create, : > and demo ad-hoc). : After digging through the wicontrol man pages, I started getting that : suspicion. : : > The long and the short of it is that you need FreeBSD-stable and : > hostap to make this work reliably. : I am slightly new to FreeBSD, so need to know one thing. which version of : stable do I need? 4.6? or will 4.5 do. I am currently running 4.5 (February : 2002 cd - 4 disc set) from the Freebsdmall.com folks. : : Another fellow mentioned getting things working wirh hostap, going to look : into that now. You need FreeBSD-stable as of yesterday. this isn't on the 4.5 or 4.6 set, as it is brand-spankin' new functionality. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message