Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 23:33:20 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: jrb@cs.pdx.edu Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warner: re Ad-Hoc with Windows? Message-ID: <20020503.233320.70552656.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <200205031706.KAA12273@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> References: <200205031706.KAA12273@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>
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Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu> writes:
: >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.
: I thought it was at least 6:06 ?! No telling. The
: meta-point about your firmware may bite you is worth repeating
: however many times. It ain't your card ... it's your particular
: jello in your card.
You could be right about that. I was typing from memory.
: wicontrol -C was intended for ad hoc mode. Which one could
: argue that the IEEE has more or less made defunct. ... but I digress.
But it works great in infrastructure mode, since I see things like:
[1/3]: 00:50:da:c2:76:e3, 1.0.0.1, sig: -53, noise: -95, qual: 42
[2/3]: 00:00:c0:79:2a:f0, 1.0.0.2, sig: -51, noise: -91, qual: 40
[3/3]: 00:a0:cc:d2:0c:01, 1.0.0.3, sig: -46, noise: -91, qual: 45
but that just gives a range of samples.
: wicontrol has
:
: Comms quality/signal/noise
:
: which works fine in managed mode. Else wscan would have a hard time ...
: It doesn't work in any ad-hoc mode.
The comms quality/signal/noise line needs some work. It doesn't
always report right. Also, we should normalize to dBm, since
different cards have different conversion factors. Lucent does it
one way, and prism2 does it another. Don't know about symbol.
Warner
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