From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 19 0: 1:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from www.kozubik.com (www.kozubik.com [198.78.70.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F8237B407 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:01:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by www.kozubik.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g5J6uu435107 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:57:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:56:56 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik X-Sender: john@www To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: connecting aironet and lucent 802.11b in ad hoc mode Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 There is some confusion[1] as to how you get `an` cards to talk to `wi` cards (cisco aironet talking to lucent) in FreeBSD - it is non-intuitive. Here is the process: 1. on the wi side, set -c 1, and set -q "something", leave port type BSS. (do NOT configure as ad-hoc) 2. on the an side, set -o 0 (ad-hoc) and `-v 1 -n "something"` 3. I have tested this on channels 1,10, and 6, using FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE NOTE: output of `ifconfig -a` will say "status: no carrier" on the system with the lucent card. The `ifconfig -a` output on the system with the aironet card will say "status: associated" 4. SPEED TEST: (an says 11Mbps , wi says 2Mbps) 1048576 bytes sent in 2.25 seconds (454.38KB/s) 3.635 mb/s 1048576 bytes sent in 2.20 seconds (465.75KB/s) 3.726 mb/s (got same speeds on a file 10x that big) (using laptops with _slow_ (4200 rpm?) hard drives) Step 1 refers to `wicontrol` commands. Example: `wicontrol -i wi0 -c 1` Step 2 refers to `ancontrol` commands. Example: `ancontrol -i an0 -o 0` [1] Thread on freebsd-mobile dated 2001-11-12 ----- John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message