Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:14:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" <vova@express.ru> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WaveLan (Orinco) question (FreeBSD and Windows wireless connection) Message-ID: <20010403121411.I71213@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <15048.13856.683774.939154@vbook.express.ru>; from vova@express.ru on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:19:44PM %2B0400 References: <15048.13856.683774.939154@vbook.express.ru>
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[removing -net] On Monday, 2 April 2001 at 12:19:44 +0400, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: > Hi > > Can anybody help me with configuration of wireless network. > > I successful run network with number of WaveLan station with FreeBSD > driver in adhoc mode: > wi0: <WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0 > in list I've found program to get firmware version, is shows: > # ./wi wi0 fd20 > wi-version > fd20: 001f 0001 0006 0006 > I guess it 6.1, but I am not sure, I don't know this either. > So now I've trying to connect windows machine to this network - and > I have no any success. I have no any access-point hardware in > network. > > So questions are: > need I upgrade firmware on my WaveLans ? Difficult to say. If they work, I'd say no. > what IEEE 802.11 mode I need to configure to use mixed network ? That depends on what else is in the network. > what drivers will be good for Windows for it ? Sorry, I don't do Microsoft. > May be there is to different answers like: > "You need to use old windows driver ver X.X in adhoc demo mode" > or > "You need to upgrade firmware and use BSS mode" If you don't have a base station, you need ad-hoc mode. > Please help me, I've read through FreeBSD mail-lists and found a lot > of information but no anything like step by step successful > configuration notice. The obvious first thing is to look at the output of wicontrol. Are you using WEP encryption anywhere? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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