Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:54:31 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: WiFi / ESSID and wi0 Message-ID: <200106102154.f5ALsWU70000@lists.unixathome.org>
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I"m attending a conference on Monday where they are providing
wireless acess points. Their instructions include:
"You will need to use a WiFi wireless network device, choose 'DMTF' as
the ESSID (Extended Service Set ID) and be configured to use DHCP
with no encryption."
The DHCP bit I can configure.
I have an Orinoco Silver card from Lucent technologies (and it has WiFi)
printed on it. Looking at man wicontrol, I see:
-i iface -q SSID
Specify the name of an IBSS (SSID) to create on a given in-
terface. The SSID can be any text string up to 30 characters
long.
Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes only:
enabling the creation of an IBSS on a host system doesn't
appear to actually work.
So can I use SSID instead of ESSID? I also have a gold card if that
makes much difference.
thanks.
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Dan Langille
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