Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:28:26 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Setting channels on wi0 Message-ID: <15374.40842.443973.449316@trooper.velocet.net>
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Having just got new wireless network toys, of course I've been playing
with them. One thing I noticed almost immediately is that there are
several other companies on channel 6 --- which (contrary to the man
page) appears to be the default configuration of the cards. I can
tell this because "tcpdump" spits out lots of traffic that's not mine.
Since I'd rather have my 11Mb to myself, I set about changing the
channel of the cards. No go. Here's my terminal capture:
[1:10:310]root@canoe:~> ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe0e:3117%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 216.138.242.253 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 216.138.242.255
ether 00:04:5a:0e:31:17
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
status: associated
ssid default
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 6 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
[1:11:311]root@canoe:~> wicontrol -i wi0 -f 3
[1:12:312]root@canoe:~> ifconfig wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe0e:3117%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 216.138.242.253 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 216.138.242.255
ether 00:04:5a:0e:31:17
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid default
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 6 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
Dave.
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