Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:53:23 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: aalejandro@icenetworks.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does the IBSS creation works? Message-ID: <20020928.005323.04696364.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <002101c266a3$5d0c8840$0ea00cc4@icenet.com> References: <002101c266a3$5d0c8840$0ea00cc4@icenet.com>
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"Abel Alejandro" <aalejandro@icenetworks.com> writes:
: I have a laptop that I wanna use as a base station.
: Every client who is near me can get internet access.
:
: On my laptop I am running RELENG_4 as 1 week ago.
: On the manual pages of the wicontrol for the
: -c flag it says:
:
: Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes
: only: abling the creation of an IBSS on a host system
: doesn't appear o actually work.
works for me, but I use the mediaopt ibss-create rather than trying to
get the dodgy -c flag of wicontrol to actually work.
: Does this mean I can do what I want or not?
: I ask because I followed the intructions on this page
: http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html
: and I couldnt it working, and I got the 8.x firmware
: on my orinoco's. Beforing messing more with
: my wireless stuff I just wanted to make sure
: FreeBSD supports this.
IBSS creation works. I have two links that are using it. One link is
a pair of lucent cards (well, they are old enough not to have it, so I
guess I have only one linke). The other is a pair of PRISM2 cards.
However, if you want a unix base station, don't use IBSS mode. It is
poo for when you really want an access point. A prism2 card, with up
to date firmware, and hostap works really well.
Warner
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