From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 16:10:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00F237B495 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:10:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3F443F75 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1123151A3D; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:41:07 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:41:07 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: kcai@cs.ubc.ca, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad-hoc wireless mode and ticks (fwd) Message-ID: <20030305001106.GB34581@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030304012848.GA25691@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030304.071802.05621603.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030304.071802.05621603.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 4 March 2003 at 7:18:02 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20030304012848.GA25691@wantadilla.lemis.com> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >> Yes, this is very confusing. I've been asking the maintainer to >> change the terminology, but he points out that the other BSDs do it >> this way as well. > > I think you need to learn to ask better. The maintainer uses industry > standard terminology. No, this has changed since we last discussed it, as you demonstrate below. > In -stable, you want something like > > ifconfig wi0 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt ibss-craete # ibss mode (adhoc) > ifconfig wi0 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc # lucent > > In current, by contrast, you want to use the following: > > ifconfig wi0 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc # ibss mode (adhoc) > ifconfig wi0 media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc,flag0 # lucent It's good to see you've changed this. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZUCaIubykFB6QiMRArsKAJ4sRkGQwtkG1LKMewSurtxaMZ3SgACgpX3A 6WWeR7DelHve320EfJpJamU= =6uJd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message