Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:29:00 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> Subject: Re: IBSS creation - summary Message-ID: <XFMail.011023172900.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011023191637.A3989@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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On 23-Oct-01 Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:55:49PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: >> output in FreeBSD will report "No Carrier". Therefore, I thought I had > > For what it's worth, mine oscellates between "aassociated" and "no > carrier". Also, the 'signal' and 'noise' parameters from wicontrol > on FreeBSD seem to accurately represent link quality (from my simple > walk away, walk towards) testing. The lucent drivers on my windows > box always show no signal. All of my work is with 4.4-STABLE from > about two weeks ago. > > I'll say this again, if someone is working on making the changes so > FreeBSD can be a proper access point, I'll help in any way that I > can. You can talk to Julian Elischer (julian@FreeBSD.org). I believe he worked for a company that was developing a binary only driver for the wavelans that would allow it to be a base station. You would have to purchase this driver I think, but it would be much cheaper than buying an access point. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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