From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri May 3 13: 7:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6D037B404; Fri, 3 May 2002 13:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nextgig-8.customer.nethere.net ([209.132.102.168] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 173jKa-0006FF-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 14:07:04 -0600 Message-ID: <3CD2E046.B1E0B3D1@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 13:08:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, grog@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, dunham@dunham.org, jdunham@m3designinc.com, jdunham@texas.net Subject: Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows? References: <1020327165.442.165.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020502183058.A52284@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1020331032.442.168.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020503.082221.37493394.imp@village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > > : > - IBSS mode works with all systems I've tried it with. > > Assuming that you have new enough firmware in your lucent cards. > > : > - To set IBSS mode with Lucent cards, use -p 1 (just like managed mode > : > or whatever we'll call it this time). > > Assuming that you have new enough firmware in your lucent cards. You > need at least 6.0.3 to be able to use non-demo mode ad-hoc (IBSS). > Otherwise, it won't work, according to reports I've seen. Will wicontrol show the firmware revision? I looked at my card with a WinXP system, but couldn't figger out how to get the firmware rev out of Windows. Boo hiss. I couldn't find it in the ifconfig or wicontrol output either. The Lucent site is unhelpful; you can download a firmware updater for Windows, but there is little to no helpful information on their support site. > IBSS is a mode that you need to do routing with. It won't bridge for > you. You need access point for that. Maybe that's what Wes is > talking about: the ability to put the access point on a network and > have it deal properly with bridging the traffic onto the lan. This is probably what was trying to slip into my forebrain and finding lots of obstacles along the way. This would be what Jerry needs at the far (from the DSL) end of his network, but Jerry could partition his network and use a router at that end as well. > Finally, a lot of stuff is in flux right now :-) While I have your attention, Warner, do you have support for any 802.11*a* cards in -current? If not, would you like to borrow some for a while? We have 5 cards and an AP here, and I might be able to loan you some of the equipment for a month or two... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message