From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 3 20:10:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E5437B405 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:10:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pedigree.cs.ubc.ca (pedigree.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.6.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B15E43FCB for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:10:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kcai@cs.ubc.ca) Received: from granville.cs.ubc.ca (granville.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.7.20]) by pedigree.cs.ubc.ca (8.12.8/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h244AIkZ004888; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:10:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:10:18 -0800 (PST) From: Kan Cai To: Jason Hunt Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad-hoc wireless mode and ticks (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20030304010015.GA50744@lethargic.dyndns.org> Message-ID: References: <20030304010015.GA50744@lethargic.dyndns.org> 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 On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:10:26PM -0800, Kan Cai wrote: > > > > Feel a little confused with the ad-hoc mode set by "wicontrol -p 3", is > > it Lucent ad-hoc mode instead of the standard IEEE ad-hoc mode (IBSS). > > > > After I use "-p 3" option, it cannot talk to Linux/Windows ad-hoc > > wireless station. But if I set it to "-p 4", it can do the job. However, I > > cannot find this option in wicontrol man page or anywhere. Could somebody > > explain me what's going on here? > > Not that it makes a difference (yet), but wicontrol is deprecated and > (I think) is being removed sooner or later. You should instead use > ifconfig to configure wireless interfaces. To be honest, I'm not sure > how a new user is supposed to know that. I only know this from watching > the mailing lists. > > Maybe the wicontrol(8) man page should be updated? > I also hope this man page should be updated > Anyways, read through the wi(4) man page. It will explain the various > modes and has some examples. You might also want to look at the > ifconfig(8) man page for a listing of available options to configure > devices with. > But when I set the option "mediaopt ibss", I cannot set it back to the AP mode, or how should I (the ibss-master? it does not work for me)?. I do not want this wireless station to be the hostAP itself. Thanks for any help, Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message