From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 25 8:15:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B08637B431 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id C844E81D2E; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:15:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:15:06 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Warner Losh Cc: hm@hcs.de, keet@plig.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wi as access point? Message-ID: <20011125101506.A13393@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> <200111251539.fAPFdA746284@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111251539.fAPFdA746284@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 08:39:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Warner Losh [011125 09:39] wrote: > In message <20011125075120.55BF32B7@hcswork.hcs.de> Hellmuth Michaelis writes: > : >From the keyboard of Warner Losh: > : > In message <20011124174225.A1216@riffraff.plig.net> Christiaan Keet writes: > : > : I've got a Lucent Orinoco WaveLAN card (wi0) in a PCI bridge. It > : > : seems to work fine in a peer-to-peer configuration, but is it > : > : possible to configure the wi device to act as access point? > : > > : > A driver to do that exists for FreeBSD, but it is sadly unavailable to > : > the public at this time. > : > : Come on Warner, you must have expected that the next question has to be > : "why ?" and "why 'sadly' ?" and "when ends 'at this time' ?" ;-) > > It was written, but can't be released just yet due to licesing issues. Just as a side note, I'm currently using an Addtron PCI<->PCMCIA adapter with an Addtron wireless card as a "psuedo-base-station", basically I have it running in ad-hoc mode and it functions pretty ok. The only really irritating part is that if some card starts transmitting in 'BSS' mode, then it usually causes the card or driver to stop working properly. Since this problem is intermittant (i usually remeber to 'wicontrol -p 3' before running dhclient) I haven't given it much thought except to sputter and curse loudly when I do forget and it necessitates a power-cycle of my 'router'. So basically, you can make a poor-man's base station by using ad-hoc mode and a wireless card in a freebsd box. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message