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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2002 21:02:26 -0700
From:      James Satterfield <james@floondoon.com>
To:        Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Access point with wi
Message-ID:  <200205122102.26050.james@floondoon.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CDF31B6.90403@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <200205111317.23509.james@floondoon.com> <200205121344.54519.james@floondoon.com> <3CDF31B6.90403@quack.kfu.com>

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No fair! I've got an Orinoco in a Linksys PCI adapter.

On Sunday 12 May 2002 08:23 pm, Nick Sayer wrote:
> It doesn't work with Orinocco cards. You need to get one of the prism2
> based cards, such as a Netgear MA401, or the Linksys, US Robotics,
> SMC... Look at /etc/defauls/pccard.conf for 'config auto "wi" ? 0x10000=
'
> lines. The 0x1000 flags says that that card is a prism2.
>
> James Satterfield wrote:
> > Larry,
> > Thanks for the heads up. Near as I can tell, the man pages for wicont=
rol
> > and ifconfig haven't changed to reflect this change. Hence, I don't s=
ee
> > how to turn that on. All of my supported media types are still adhoc.=
 I'm
> > running stable as of May 10th. Any pointers you could give would be
> > great.
> >
> > James.
> >
> > On Saturday 11 May 2002 04:42 pm, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >>On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 15:17, James Satterfield wrote:
> >>>Is there any code to do this yet? It's my understanding that this co=
de
> >>>does exist but hasn't been released due to some "issues" with lucent=
?
> >>
> >>ler@lerlaptop$ ifconfig -m wi0
> >>wi0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >>=09inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fea8:e017%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> >>=09inet 207.158.72.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 207.158.72.255
> >>=09ether 00:06:25:a8:e0:17
> >>=09media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
> >>=09status: associated
> >>=09supported media:
> >>=09=09media autoselect mediaopt hostap
> >>=09=09media DS/11Mbps mediaopt hostap
> >>=09=09media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt hostap
> >>=09=09media DS/2Mbps mediaopt hostap
> >>=09=09media DS/1Mbps mediaopt hostap
> >>=09=09media autoselect
> >>=09=09media autoselect mediaopt adhoc
> >>=09=09media DS/11Mbps
> >>=09=09media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc
> >>=09=09media DS/5.5Mbps
> >>=09=09media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt adhoc
> >>=09=09media DS/2Mbps
> >>=09=09media DS/2Mbps mediaopt adhoc
> >>=09=09media DS/1Mbps
> >>=09=09media DS/1Mbps mediaopt adhoc
> >>=09ssid "LERCTR NETWORK" 1:""
> >>=09stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
> >>=09channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
> >>=09wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
> >>ler@lerlaptop$ uname -a
> >>FreeBSD lerlaptop 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #18: Sat May =
11
> >>15:14:16 CDT 2002     ler@lerlaptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP  i=
386
> >>ler@lerlaptop$
> >>
> >>Yes, it's in RELENG_4 as of about 2 weeks ago.
> >>
> >>>James.
> >>>
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