From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 20 16:37:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CFA37B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 13btQQ-0005n2-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:37:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:37:14 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems getting WaveLAN device (wi0) working Message-ID: <20000920193714.A21934@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <3.0.6.32.20000920133438.0110c740@pop.quiknet.com> <4.3.1.1.20000920122431.00c45b90@localhost> <4.3.1.1.20000920122431.00c45b90@localhost> <20000920131158.D61974@gblx.net> <3.0.6.32.20000920133438.0110c740@pop.quiknet.com> <20000920160635.E10774@nitrous.net> <3.0.6.32.20000920162544.01141570@pop.quiknet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000920162544.01141570@pop.quiknet.com>; from bney@quiknet.com on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:25:44PM -0700 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bob Ney probably said: > The advantage is that you dont have to go buy the access points. Assuming > that the BSD box can be made to perform the coordinating function of the > access point. Has anyone done that yet? FreeBSD cannot do the BSS base station mode - the code doesn't work. The advantages to BSS are you can use powersaving (doubles my laptop battery life) and I believe it is more efficient. I have a cheapo freebsd laptop doing ether <-> wireless routing in ad-hoc mode talking happily to a freebsd laptop and to my wife's windows laptop. When I get around to it, I'll be replacing this with a real base station. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message