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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:50:37 +0100
From:      Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Jim Flowers <jflowers@peony.ezo.net>, Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, Eric Kozowski <eric@svjava.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS
Message-ID:  <39AA35ED.BC9E6428@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008261430500.2251-100000@peony.ezo.net> <39A9E404.F47030C7@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters wrote:

> Jim Flowers wrote:
> >
> > Last I checked the wi driver will not do IBSS and says so in the
> > documentation.  I also tried it and couldn't get anywhere.  Would be nice.
>
> You must've last checked a long time ago:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>      The wicontrol command controls the operation of WaveLAN/IEEE wireless
>      networking devices via the wi(4) driver.  Most of the parameters that can
>      be changed relate to the IEEE 802.11 protocol which the WaveLAN imple-
>      ments.  This includes the station name, whether the station is operating
>      in ad-hoc (point to point) or BSS (service set) mode, and the network
>      name of a service set to join (IBSS) if BSS mode is enabled.  The wicon-
>      trol command can also be used to view the current settings of these pa-
>      rameters and to dump out the values of the card's statistics counters.
>
> --
>             "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
>
> Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
> wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/

Wes,

   quite correct. I considered revisiting the matter non-important since anyone
that would
use fbsd 3.4 or later should have such features by default...(otherwise wavelan
support would
be pretty stranded :)..

Now, I have my reservations about the card's statistics counters.....I have yet to
see working statistics
on the wavelan interface...That has *not* been working since 3.4 for me...anyone
that can tell me I am
wrong...please do as I want to use these stats pretty badly...

Theo



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