From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 28 2:52:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 086C137B423; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:50:40 +0100 Message-ID: <39AA35ED.BC9E6428@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:50:37 +0100 From: Theo PAGTZIS Reply-To: t.pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk Organization: UCL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: el, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: Jim Flowers , Theo PAGTZIS , Eric Kozowski , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS References: <39A9E404.F47030C7@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters wrote: > Jim Flowers wrote: > > > > Last I checked the wi driver will not do IBSS and says so in the > > documentation. I also tried it and couldn't get anywhere. Would be nice. > > You must've last checked a long time ago: > > DESCRIPTION > The wicontrol command controls the operation of WaveLAN/IEEE wireless > networking devices via the wi(4) driver. Most of the parameters that can > be changed relate to the IEEE 802.11 protocol which the WaveLAN imple- > ments. This includes the station name, whether the station is operating > in ad-hoc (point to point) or BSS (service set) mode, and the network > name of a service set to join (IBSS) if BSS mode is enabled. The wicon- > trol command can also be used to view the current settings of these pa- > rameters and to dump out the values of the card's statistics counters. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ Wes, quite correct. I considered revisiting the matter non-important since anyone that would use fbsd 3.4 or later should have such features by default...(otherwise wavelan support would be pretty stranded :).. Now, I have my reservations about the card's statistics counters.....I have yet to see working statistics on the wavelan interface...That has *not* been working since 3.4 for me...anyone that can tell me I am wrong...please do as I want to use these stats pretty badly... Theo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message