Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:25:40 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How broken is IBSS creation (wicontrol) these days ? Message-ID: <20011023082540.B84509@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110221857560.45096-100000@www.kozubik.com>; from john@kozubik.com on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 07:06:08PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110221857560.45096-100000@www.kozubik.com>
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I just got IBSS working on a 4.4-STABLE box (in the PCI carrier, for what it's worth). When using the Agere (aka Orinoco aka Lucent) drivers (latest) on a Windows box it finds the FreeBSD box as a 'Peer to Peer' network. It can detect the network name and channel, although it takes it a long time. Setting the network name and channel makes it go much quicker. I get no signal strength meter, can't do site monitoring or link testing, but it works fine. In talking with some other friends, it appears on the older lucent drivers you must set the netname for it to find it at all. From my limited understanding of the spec the lack of signal strength is a result of being in peer to peer mode. The card can only keep one set of stats -- it normally communicates only to the AP (even if talking to another card, works just like 10baseT going to the 'hub' and back). In peer-to-peer mode it talks to a random number of other cards directly, and it just can't keep the stats. It sounds like your two boxes are almost right. I had some issues with WEP, but it doesn't look like you're using it. (WEP works fine if you make everything match, really. :-) Make sure you ifconfig wi0 up if you're not otherwise configuring it. I wish it could work as a proper access point. My understanding is that configuring the bits on the card is easy, but there's some confusion over how to program the card (and/or do the right things in the driver) to make the relay of 802.11 frames work right. I'm not sure who's working on that, but if I can help here's an offer. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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