Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:18:55 -0800 From: Jim Binkley <jrb@cse.ogi.edu> To: Behcet Sarikaya <sarikaya@u-aizu.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wavelan NIC Message-ID: <199711201818.KAA04768@church.cse.ogi.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:49:48 %2B0900." <199711200149.KAA09503@pross114.u-aizu.ac.jp>
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Your message <199711200149.KAA09503@pross114.u-aizu.ac.jp>: >On a laptop, I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 with PAO driver for Wavelan. Any >ideas on how to configure wlp0 in rc.conf? > When I insert the card, pccardd recognizes it and it displays 915 MHz >although my card is 2.4 GHz? When I do ifconfig on wlp0, it shows wlp0 as an >Ethernet? You unfortunately have to compile the driver to get it to work under 2.4 GHz as I recently discovered. grep on band_2400 and you will see what I mean. #define WAVELAN_PCMCIA_24 which I believe can be set as a kernel option. > How to configure WaveLan subnet using WAvePoint II bridges? I fear I have to make a somewhat sarcastic remark. If you have the ISA cards, why use the WAvePoint II bridges? There is no roaming support in the driver, so you should turn roaming off on the bridge. Just make sure the nwids are the same. > How to configure for Multicast support? Get my driver. It is an updated and less buggy version than the one Hosokawa has. I thought I sent him a copy many moons ago but it got lost somewhere apparently. Multicast works and doesn't cause mrouted to blow up either. See http://www.cs.pdx.edu/research/SMN and download the wavelan stuff only. Warning though ... Said driver was for 2.2.older. It may need some tweaking. > How to configure a Wavelan ISA on a desktop? There exists a wl.0 man page. I don't know where it is in terms of freebsd/releases. ifconfig wl0 ... works and use wlconfig to set the magic variables or you simply do it on the dos side. > I could not locate any documentation on the above issues. > Any help will be very much appreciated. > >PS. I am not subscribed to this malining list, please send me any replies >directly and possibly cc them to freebsd-mobile. At some point I hope to have some time to hack on the if_wlp.c driver and teach it how to dynamically figure out what kind of driver it is. It also needs to be ported out of the PAO, given an understanding of "sub-channels" (or whatever they are called), a man page, and a good general all around thrashing. Jim Binkley jrb@cse.ogi.edu
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