From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 9 9:23:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB22837B6C9 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21652 invoked by uid 3001); 9 Jan 2001 17:22:47 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2001 17:22:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 48918 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Jan 2001 17:22:47 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:22:47 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Matt Peterson Cc: Harkitrat Singh , freeBSD-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLAN (10 Mbps) card with FreeBSD-4.2 Message-ID: <20010109122247.A48686@numachi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@peterson.org on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:01:29AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:01:29AM -0800, Matt Peterson wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Harkitrat Singh wrote: > > > > insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1 131.252.208.141 > > insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1 > > try insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1 > insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -n 131.252.208.141 > > assuming "131.252.208.141" is your network name, which I doubt. You need > to find out your network name. BSS is -p 1, such as a Apple Airport and > other AP products. If you're talking to another wireless card (sitting in > a Linux/BSD box), it's probably IBSS mode, -p 3. You can only run one > switch for wicontrol (along with -i, wi0 is the default). In my limited experience, if (in BSS mode), if you attempt to join a network of '' (that is, the empty string), you will find the 'first one' automagically... A subsquent call to wicontrol: % wicontril -i wi0 With no other arguments will dump out the current settings, which include 'requested' vs 'current' SSID (network name)... -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message