Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 22:44:39 -0700 From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com> To: Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD WaveLAN driver support IBSS (orinoco Peer-to-Peer)? Message-ID: <4.3.1.1.20010519224116.00b80f00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010519194104.D44199-100000@localhost>
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At 08:02 PM 5/19/01, Donald Burr of Borg wrote: >My question is: is this mode of operation (Peer to peer/IBSS) supported by >the FreeBSD wi driver in 4.3-STABLE? Yes, it works fine. See <http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html>; for a description of how I got IBSS mode to work under FreeBSD. BTW, IBSS mode is actually the standard peer-to-peer mode for 802.11. "Ad hoc demo" mode was just a Lucent-specific hack, and is (as you noted) no longer supported by the newest versions of Lucent firmware. Ross. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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