From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Apr 2 19:45: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C867937B726 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 138916ACB7; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:14:11 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:14:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WaveLan (Orinco) question (FreeBSD and Windows wireless connection) Message-ID: <20010403121411.I71213@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <15048.13856.683774.939154@vbook.express.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15048.13856.683774.939154@vbook.express.ru>; from vova@express.ru on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:19:44PM +0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [removing -net] On Monday, 2 April 2001 at 12:19:44 +0400, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: > Hi > > Can anybody help me with configuration of wireless network. > > I successful run network with number of WaveLan station with FreeBSD > driver in adhoc mode: > wi0: at port 0x240-0x27f irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0 > in list I've found program to get firmware version, is shows: > # ./wi wi0 fd20 > wi-version > fd20: 001f 0001 0006 0006 > I guess it 6.1, but I am not sure, I don't know this either. > So now I've trying to connect windows machine to this network - and > I have no any success. I have no any access-point hardware in > network. > > So questions are: > need I upgrade firmware on my WaveLans ? Difficult to say. If they work, I'd say no. > what IEEE 802.11 mode I need to configure to use mixed network ? That depends on what else is in the network. > what drivers will be good for Windows for it ? Sorry, I don't do Microsoft. > May be there is to different answers like: > "You need to use old windows driver ver X.X in adhoc demo mode" > or > "You need to upgrade firmware and use BSS mode" If you don't have a base station, you need ad-hoc mode. > Please help me, I've read through FreeBSD mail-lists and found a lot > of information but no anything like step by step successful > configuration notice. The obvious first thing is to look at the output of wicontrol. Are you using WEP encryption anywhere? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message