Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:45:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com> Cc: Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net>, MET <met@uberstats.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Wireless Networking Message-ID: <20020726031556.GF72382@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020725224022.19266.qmail@web20704.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1027632580.283.83.camel@trsealslptp1> <20020725224022.19266.qmail@web20704.mail.yahoo.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 25 July 2002 at 15:40:22 -0700, Ed Yu wrote: > --- Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net> wrote: >> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 16:29, MET wrote: >>> Does FreeBSD allow and or follow the standards for >>> wireless networking? >> >> I have been able to connect my FreeBSD 4.6 Laptop to both Cisco >> Aironet access points as well as the cheaper Linksys WAP11 (which I >> own). I have used both Intel Wireless PCMCIA nics as well as >> Linksys. The Intel card was a little tricky but I was running >> FreeBSD 4.4 then. It's much better under 4.6 > > I'm not running a FreeBSD laptop but while I was > running a Linux laptop I found that I can connect to > my access point with no problem in Ad-Hoc mode, but > not Infrastructure mode with WEP. You appear to be confused. Ad-hoc modes do not use the access point. > I assume it is the same in FreeBSD. It depends on your card. Mine > was Addtronics. There's a certain difference in terminology between Linux and BSD implementations. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-feb2002.html#9 for a discussion. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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