From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 26 20:26:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF3C37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5461F43E86 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:26:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8R3Nqpk003019; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:26:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:23:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020926.212343.39463646.imp@bsdimp.com> To: bms@spc.org Cc: dan@langille.org, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting wi running as a bridge From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020925214133.GQ26280@spc.org> References: <3D91EAF6.18283.6741AB3F@localhost> <20020925214133.GQ26280@spc.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In message: <20020925214133.GQ26280@spc.org> Bruce M Simpson writes: : On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:57:26PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: : > My wireless network consists of two wireless cards running in ad-hoc : > mode (one is an Orinoco gold in a workstation, the other a silver in : > the laptop). On the workstation, I'm trying what man wi says about : [snip] : > # ifconfig wi0 inet up ssid my_ap mediaopt hostap : > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured : [snip] : : hostap is a PRISM2.5 thing. Orinoco is HERMES, not PRISM2. :-) Hostap is a prism2, prism2.5 and prism 3 thing :-) It also doesn't work with symbol firmware with anything that could be called reliability. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message