From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 20:16: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFADB37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E8043E72 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:16:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C8D9081431; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:45:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:45:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ed Yu Cc: Ray Seals , MET , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Wireless Networking Message-ID: <20020726031556.GF72382@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1027632580.283.83.camel@trsealslptp1> <20020725224022.19266.qmail@web20704.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020725224022.19266.qmail@web20704.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 [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 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