From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Feb 18 16:18:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782C637B404 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420B45D0C; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:18:38 -0800 (PST) To: Vinod Namboodiri Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSS mode yet? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:06:40 PST." <20020219000640.40919.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:18:38 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020219001838.420B45D0C@ptavv.es.net> 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 > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:06:40 -0800 (PST) > From: Vinod Namboodiri > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > I have just installed a orinoco card into my freebsd > 4.4 box. > Does FreeBSd now support the BSS mode or still > restricted to the IBSS mode? > wicontrol shows an option of 1 and 3 for BSS and > ad-hoc mode.will assigning 1 make my box work in the > BSS mode? FreeBSD has supported BSS mode pretty much since it has supported the WaveLAN cards. The default mode was changed from Ad-hoc mode to BSS at about 4.3 and remains the default mode in 4.5. What FreeBSD does not support is a FreeBSD system acting as a BSS Access Point. It can only set up a BSS connection to an access point. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message