From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 17:53:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08F537B401 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:53:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgrel1.and.agilent.com (msgrel1.and.agilent.com [130.30.33.104]) by msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0F55C4 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:53:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.and.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97467145 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:53:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id RAA10133 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:53:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101180153.RAA10133@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wavelan and freebsd Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:38:28 EST." <3A6610D3.3423C448@deltron.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:53:30 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cristhian Venegas wrote: > Can two freeBSD 4.2 Boxes talk with BSS protocol using wavelan adpaters? What do you mean by "BSS mode"? FreeBSD support BSS clients, but you can't (yet?) make a FreeBSD BSS access point. You can use ad-hoc mode to make an ad-hoc (not BSS) "access point", where this ad-hoc "access point" would act as a simple gateway/router in an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network. > I'm working with a freeBSD box and two windows machines in a peer to > peer network and all works fine (I'm not using an Access Point), but > when I tried with a second freeBSD Box the second one can not see the > first one, but the windows machines can see the two freeBSD boxes What do you mean by "see"? If, by "see", you mean that the Windows WaveManager software can detect the FreeBSD boxes, that may not mean a whole lot. Can the Windows boxes actually communicate (e.g., telnet, ftp, etc.) with the FreeBSD boxes? > Is it possible work with two wavelan NIC in the same FreeBSD box ? Yes, *IF* you have sufficient free resources. Note that each WaveLan card will require an IRQ (you'll need two), and most PCs will probably be hard-pressed for IRQs. You'll probably have to reconfigure the pcic devices to use polling mode (instead of using IRQs). You'll also have to make sure that /etc/pccard.conf correctly lists any free resources. > When I Tried i get this error when the system see the second wavelan NIC > > "pccardd[47]: No free configuration for card Lucent: Technologies " It looks like you don't have sufficient free resources, or you need to reconfigure the box to get more free resources. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message