Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:15:50 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adhoc doesn't work with centrino Message-ID: <200403051315.50483.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040305012447.GA774@cactus.homeunix.org> References: <20040305012447.GA774@cactus.homeunix.org>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:54, jqdkf@army.com wrote: > $ ifconfig ndis0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 \ > ssid CACTUS mode 11b mediaopt adhoc up > > ifconfig shows that > > ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet6 fe80::204:23ff:fe60:9df1%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 > inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > ether 00:04:23:60:9d:f1 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect > <adhoc>) status: no carrier > ssid "" > channel 1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 > wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 > > With wicontrol ndis0, I can see that > > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 0 ] > > I don't know how to change the port type to 3. There seems no documentation > on that. I wouldn't believe what is reported in wicontrol - I believe most of it is synthesised by the ndis framework. Ifconfig is probably more reliable. > Also I noticed that, after I configured it to adhoc mode, the mouse doesn't > move smoothly, which doesn't happen in BSS mode. Is there anything that I > can do to make it work? Hmm I don't get that.. You could try someone else's (another manufacterer) driver.. I use Dell's. My page at http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/I8600/ has a link to it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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