From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 20: 2:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from borg-cube.com (226-193.adsl2.netlojix.net [207.71.226.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545AC37B42C; Sat, 19 May 2001 20:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@borg-cube.com) Received: from borg-cube.com (dburr@borg-cube.com [207.71.226.193] (may be forged)) by borg-cube.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4K32GR44680; Sat, 19 May 2001 20:02:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@borg-cube.com) Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 20:02:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr of Borg To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Does FreeBSD WaveLAN driver support IBSS (orinoco Peer-to-Peer)? Message-ID: <20010519194104.D44199-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ followups to freebsd-questions, please ] I noticed, when upgrading my Windows machine to the latest Orinoco (aka WaveLAN) drivers, that support for Ad-Hoc Demo Mode has been dropped. Hence, my nice little WaveLAN network has ceased operation. :( Instead they have created a new IBSS "Peer to Peer" mode, which supposedly does NOT require the presence of an Access Point, just like Ad-Hoc. However, from what I understand, peer-to-peer mode isn't supported by all the drivers out there; for example, the Linux driver, from what I understand, does not support it. My question is: is this mode of operation (Peer to peer/IBSS) supported by the FreeBSD wi driver in 4.3-STABLE? I browsed around the man pages and found this in the man page for wicontrol(8): -i iface -c 0|1 Allow the station to create a service set (IBSS). Permitted values are 0 (don't create IBSS) and 1 (enable creation of IBSS). The default is 0. Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes only: enabling the creation of an IBSS on a host system doesn't ap- pear to actually work. So it would seem that IBSS mode is *not* supported by the wi driver... but I thought I had better check, just in case this information is inaccurate or otherwise out of date. Any ideas as to how I can get my WaveLAN setup working again? Thanks, Donald -- Donald Burr of Borg | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \----------------------------- Phone: (805)957-9666 Present Day... Present Time! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message