Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:13:53 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> Cc: Lystopad Oleksandr <laa@laa.zp.ua>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080528140121.8494A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <483C32F0.2060809@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 27 May 2008, Sam Leffler wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 27 May 2008, Lystopad Oleksandr wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I need to build wireless link between FreeBSD 4.11 with wi0 (adhoc) > > > interface and FreeBSD 7.0 with ral0 interface. I try many modes and > > > mediaopts, but no luck. :( > > > > > > Please, help me build wireless network with that environment. > > > > By omission, ral(4) implies that it won't do adhoc or hostap modes - > > despite what ifconfig says below, perhaps what you told it? - so you > > maybe can only use it in a BSS network, to an access point. Boring. > > > > ral should do ap mode and the driver claims to do ibss though I've not > tried it. When in doubt .. read the code, not the manual :) and I did check the 8-CURRENT mans. Thanks for the correction, Sam. I was just punting till 'someone like you' turned up. > ifconfig ral0 list caps > > should show the supported operating modes (ifconfig -m ral0 on 7.x and > earlier). > > > That they both say 'associated' means they can 'see' each other, but > > still have no common mode to talk in. Been there, it's confusing .. > > "associated" is a misnomer for anything but station mode. In HEAD I > changed this status to say "running" for !sta mode. Great. > To understand what's happening in 7.0 you can turn on debugging with > wlandebug and/or check the neighbor table with > > ifconfig ral0 list sta I see Oleksandr has now picked up on this so I'll butt out, a bit better informed. cheers, Ian
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