From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 2 15:47:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 946C237B43C for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 15:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rooneg@isris.pair.com) Received: (qmail 5070 invoked by uid 3130); 2 May 2001 22:41:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 18:41:03 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney To: Darryl Okahata Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linksys wireless access point Message-ID: <20010502184103.A3059@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20010502174024.F73279@electricjellyfish.net> <200105022236.PAA22589@mina.soco.agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105022236.PAA22589@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:36:28PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:36:28PM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Garrett Rooney wrote: > > > i've tried both setting it to the same as the one used by the linksys (it > > defaults to 'linksys') and leaving it set to 'ANY', so it will go to any > > network it can find. > > I'm not sure "ANY" works, although it's supposed to (I think you > may have to set it to the empty string, "", instead -- without the > quotes). well, the default setting you get when booting up is an empty string, which from my experience has allowed me to connect to any network around i don't know if you actually have to set it to an empty string by hand or not... > From the above, I believe you've tried this, but I just want to > double-check (note the "-n"): > > wicontrol -i wi0 -n linksys > > Linksys does have a Lucent Orinoco/Wavelan-specific note mentioning that > you must set the desired network name to match that used by the access > point, and that a blank network name will not work (this is for the > WAP11, but it probably also applies to the BEFW11S4). yeah, i've already tried that. good to see that we're both finding the same FAQ's though ;-) i'll try it again the next time i'm home... (the access point is at my parents house, right now i'm up at school). anyway, thanks for all your help. -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message