Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:39:57 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Message-ID: <XFMail.010105163957.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20010105111124.A14025@pir.net>
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Hi
On 05-Jan-01 Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> probably said:
>> This is not true. Ad-hoc mode is part of the 802.11 standard and IMO is
>> more useful for a home network than the added expense of an access point.
>> Ad-hoc mode will not be removed from 802.11 as it represents a valuable
>> part of the LAN configuration.
>
> but it's being removed from lucent's Windows drivers in favor of a slightly
> different mode.
i.e. infrastructure?
> The actual discussion was about making adhoc no longer the _default_
> not removing it from the freebsd driver. As wireless becomes more and
> more common, fewer and fewer people will use adhoc, IMO.
>
> If you are doing adhoc it usually means you're at home and can do an
> installation over ether instead. I've already had to create a fixit
> floppy (containing wicontrol) for several friends trying to install
> freebsd at work where there were base stations as the only
> connectivity available for laptops.
Hmm, just to get this straight in my head. I suppose we have three user
profiles:
- people at work with APs
- people at home with an AP
- people at home using ad-hoc and a FreeBSD box to gateway the
wireless to something else
It does seem that the default should be infrastructure mode.
> Hopefully bringing the wicontrol functionality into ifconfig will
> remove this problem since you can then just change the mode with
> 'extra options to ifconfig' in sysinstall.
Yup.
<snip power saving>
> P.
>
> --
> pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu
Duncan
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