Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 19:26:29 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: imp@village.org (M. Warner Losh) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows? Message-ID: <200205031726.g43HQTe30710@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20020503.082221.37493394.imp@village.org> from "M. Warner Losh" at "May 3, 2002 08:22:21 am"
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> : > - The BSDs are doing it wrong. We should be using IBSS mode, not demo
> : > ad-hoc.
>
> ad-hoc is insufficient. We should create a media option like OpenBSD
> has called master-ibss which does the right thing for the different
> types of hardware.
You mean something like this? :-)
# uname -a
FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #9: Fri May 3 12:13:19 GMT 2002 jhay@dolphin.icomtek.csir.co.za:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMALL i386
# dmesg | grep wi0
wi0 at port 0x100-0x13f irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:2d:25:5f:ba
wi0: using Lucent Embedded WaveLAN/IEEE
wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station 6.14.01
# ifconfig -m wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe25:5fba%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
ether 00:02:2d:25:5f:ba
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <ibss-master> (DS/2Mbps <ibss>)
status: associated
supported media:
media autoselect
media autoselect mediaopt ibss-master
media autoselect mediaopt ibss
media autoselect mediaopt adhoc
media manual
media DS/11Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
media DS/11Mbps mediaopt ibss
media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc
media DS/11Mbps
media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt ibss
media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt adhoc
media DS/5.5Mbps
media DS/2Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
media DS/2Mbps mediaopt ibss
media DS/2Mbps mediaopt adhoc
media DS/2Mbps
media DS/1Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
media DS/1Mbps mediaopt ibss
media DS/1Mbps mediaopt adhoc
media DS/1Mbps
#
John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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