From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 7 8:57:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rigel.cs.pdx.edu (rigel.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.208.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAAA37B406 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 08:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sirius.cs.pdx.edu (root@sirius.cs.pdx.edu [131.252.208.57]) by rigel.cs.pdx.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g47FvHU01968 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 08:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sirius.cs.pdx.edu (jrb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sirius.cs.pdx.edu (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA22469 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 08:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205071557.IAA22469@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: starter attempt at lucent/wicontrol crib sheet Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 08:57:17 -0700 From: Jim Binkley 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 Dear Lucent/prism (and other ... ) wicontrol debating society colleagues :-> ... I have attempted to capture the state of my knowledge below on the 3 known modes for Lucent/prism2 cards and wicontrol commands therein. Additions/deletions/rants? Maybe if we could get this right, we could put it in the man page? One serious question though: don't you need to specify the channel with IBSS mode? regards, Jim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.edu -----------------------------slice here --------------------------- Using lucent/prism2 cards: 1. managed mode wicontrol -p 1 wicontrol -n "someessid" notes: 1.1. wicontrol -n "" will reassociate with ANY access point. 1.2 channel is NOT given with managed mode. It is determined by various scanning techniques in the card firmware. -------------------------------------------------------- 2. IBSS ad hoc mode master: wicontrol -p 1 wicontrol -n "someessid" wicontrol -f wicontrol -c 1 slaves: wicontrol -p 1 wicontrol -f wicontrol -n "someessid" notes: 2.1. windows systems have defaulted to channel 10 recently, and to channel 3 with older versions of firmware. 2.2. -c 1 may be given by others, and is non-harmful. ------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Lucent ad hoc demo mode wicontrol -p 3 wicontrol -f notes: 3.1 known to work with at least one prism2 card (D-Link 650). 3.2 essid is not used, as there are no control packets other than data-side ACK. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message