From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 31 15:31:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE569106568B for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:31:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443BE8FC16 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so3334318eyf.9 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:31:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=MEse+VdY39q3Di9Ud86Sfn/jn+uqSGVenyFOcsI5R5M=; b=ijKbSwjf3A0BN2bSLG7q4j1FPxqGYHWYOgYPLy2Jwf0rOGGpnHpLoaNcnEnn1DgGYk iDvtVg/QCiaRN7Z9OZeufZNTNPxMYzGdERnnssf8cyRvR65E01zi7gZ9HUGfU2Lz75B0 2Tb6EAuRv/JB6q2J1csWs7kEMPw0W0NdjsDec= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LjGPDCQIJIHwOBp/GocFOKfLIqAaAysQJDVhyOLJUvFqTk0vbg5/LMg7BE0d3Q7WjM ZnpYqTtl7/stZ6CthmVYiXbRdC/K3p2qWtP9eOOPhI1GVluObkvQkSfhGAyq2uwRAUEu JhkC0X2bAEFlBixvHFD5IqHqlrd9kucwrvHxg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.98.144 with SMTP id q16mr7458733ebn.29.1262273500456; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:31:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2134e7a00912310655x4b2fdb3fo98d6610c51c3c718@mail.gmail.com> References: <2134e7a00912310655x4b2fdb3fo98d6610c51c3c718@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:31:40 +0100 Message-ID: <3a142e750912310731n60b7667fr4a864eeb58b34d1c@mail.gmail.com> From: Paul B Mahol To: Riccardo Vincelli Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpi and adhoc mode on 7.2 rel X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:31:49 -0000 On 12/31/09, Riccardo Vincelli wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I'm with a FreeBSD 7.2-release on a HP Compaq nc6400; we have plenty of > these notebooks at disposal, at a very reasonable price, so... > The card is recognized by the system, but I've got a question-issue: > > Is there a way to operate the device in ibss/adhoc mode? The manpage says > bss is default, but it doesn't tell us how to switch to p2p mode; I haven't > found no useful posts on this. > In the handbook various commands issue a "mediaopt adhoc", but "adhoc", it > doesn't appear as a valid opt value for the mediaopt option, for this > driver. > The problem is that I can't put in work the device as a wep-authenticated > peer, nor with ifconfig, nor with wpa_supplicant (network entry is fine and > mode=1, but the ssid is constantly skipped: skip - IBSS (adhoc) etc...) as I > suspect I can't set it in ad-hoc mode. > tia! IBSS cap is commented out in source, so it cant work, I dont have card so cant help more. -- Paul B Mahol