From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 23 17:54:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E137537B403; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA96930; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:13:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: John Baldwin Cc: Leo Bicknell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, John Kozubik Subject: Re: IBSS creation - summary In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is some movement on this as the guy who was in charge of negotiating with lucent (it needs different firmware) recently started to spend more time on it. On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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 -- 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message