Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:26:29 +0000 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Message-ID: <200101051926.aa20299@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:39:57 GMT." <XFMail.010105163957.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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In message <XFMail.010105163957.dmlb@computer.my.domain>, Duncan Barclay writes
>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.
How about making the default port type a kernel environment variable
which can be set in the loader? It's not ideal, but it would at
least be a temporary solution to the problem of installing via a
wavelan card.
It just needs something like this I think (untested):
Ian
Index: if_wi.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/iedowse/CVS/src/sys/i386/isa/if_wi.c,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -r1.31 if_wi.c
--- if_wi.c 2000/12/18 23:49:56 1.31
+++ if_wi.c 2001/01/05 19:20:25
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@
static int wi_alloc __P((device_t));
static void wi_free __P((device_t));
+static int wi_default_ptype;
+TUNABLE_INT_DECL("wi_default_ptype", WI_PORTTYPE_ADHOC, wi_default_ptype);
+
static device_method_t wi_pccard_methods[] = {
/* Device interface */
DEVMETHOD(device_probe, wi_pccard_probe),
@@ -316,7 +319,7 @@
sizeof(WI_DEFAULT_IBSS) - 1);
sc->wi_portnum = WI_DEFAULT_PORT;
- sc->wi_ptype = WI_PORTTYPE_ADHOC;
+ sc->wi_ptype = wi_default_ptype;
sc->wi_ap_density = WI_DEFAULT_AP_DENSITY;
sc->wi_rts_thresh = WI_DEFAULT_RTS_THRESH;
sc->wi_tx_rate = WI_DEFAULT_TX_RATE;
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