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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. :)

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