From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 2 2:18:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92ACE37B417 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 02:18:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5E4828133C; Thu, 2 May 2002 18:48:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:48:12 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, Wes Peters , Jerry Dunham , Jerry Dunham , jdunham@texas.net Subject: Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows? Message-ID: <20020502184812.D52284@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1020327165.442.165.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020502183058.A52284@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1020331032.442.168.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1020331032.442.168.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i 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-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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