From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 18:46:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF16716A4CE; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B23843D39; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i252jrQ9069152; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:15:54 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:15:50 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040305012447.GA774@cactus.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040305012447.GA774@cactus.homeunix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403051315.50483.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.2 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: jqdkf@army.com cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adhoc doesn't work with centrino X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:46:16 -0000 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 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 > ) 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