From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Sep 30 10:33:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com (proxy2.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589C337B66D for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rsf-laptop.live.com (dhcp0.live.com [208.184.148.170]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id KAA19038; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.1.20000930101744.00ae7a20@localhost> X-Sender: rsf@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:31:24 -0700 To: Jim Flowers From: Ross Finlayson Subject: Re: WaveLAN "BSS mode" on FreeBSD? Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.1.1.20000929235725.00b74d30@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:58 AM 9/30/00, Jim Flowers wrote: >You have a number of hurdles here. First get the latest firmware and >upgrade a couple of cards. I think it is 6.01. It works with Bill Paul's >driver to provide a BSS ad hoc node (really). Portables with the same >firmware will find the network name and follow any frequency changes you >make in the base station so apparantly the beacons are working.' I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying here. We've all known for a long time that a FreeBSD box can act as 'pseudo-AP' by having the WaveLAN running in "ad hoc demo" mode. That's what I've been doing for several months now, and we don't need any firmware upgrade for this. What I'm trying to do now is get a FreeBSD box to run a true AP, with the WaveLAN running in "infrastructure" (aka "BSS") mode. That's what I was asking about. Ross. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message