Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:10:18 -0800 (PST) From: Kan Cai <kcai@cs.ubc.ca> To: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad-hoc wireless mode and ticks (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0303032006460.22950@granville.cs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030304010015.GA50744@lethargic.dyndns.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0303031309110.21197@granville.cs.ubc.ca> <20030304010015.GA50744@lethargic.dyndns.org>
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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
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