Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:48:12 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Jerry Dunham <dunham@dunham.org>, Jerry Dunham <jdunham@m3designinc.com>, jdunham@texas.net Subject: Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows? Message-ID: <20020502184812.D52284@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1020331032.442.168.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <1020327165.442.165.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020502183058.A52284@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1020331032.442.168.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On Thursday, 2 May 2002 at 18:47:08 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:30, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> The real issue here is that you're using the Lucent "demo ad-hoc" mode >> instead of the "ad-hoc" mode that the 802.11 standard claims is a >> slang term for IBSS mode. I've just (hopefully) completed a >> protracted discussion with Wes Peters and Jerry Dunham (copied) on the >> subject. >> >> Basically, IBSS mode (the IEEE 802.11 sanctioned peer-to-peer mode) is >> the only one which works generally. That's why we couldn't get any >> connectivity with the Linux people on 27 December last year >> (http://www.lemis.com/~grog/xmas-bbq-2001.html for those of you who >> weren't there). We were running in demo ad-hoc mode, while Chris and >> Rusty were trying to connect in IBSS mode, so it couldn't work. Since >> then (at the LCA in February) we clarified the situation. The >> results: > > Right.. Knew I should have brought my AP :) We don't need no steenking APs. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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