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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:22:47 -0500
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Matt Peterson <matt@peterson.org>
Cc:        Harkitrat Singh <harkirat@cs.pdx.edu>, freeBSD-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WaveLAN (10 Mbps) card with FreeBSD-4.2
Message-ID:  <20010109122247.A48686@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101090256400.13014-100000@moaner.org>; from matt@peterson.org on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:01:29AM -0800
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101081529300.28836-100000@regulus.cs.pdx.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101090256400.13014-100000@moaner.org>

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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:01:29AM -0800, Matt Peterson wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Harkitrat Singh wrote:
> 
> 
> >  	insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1 131.252.208.141
> >  	insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1
> 
> try	insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1
> 	insert /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -n 131.252.208.141
> 
> assuming "131.252.208.141" is your network name, which I doubt.  You need
> to find out your network name.  BSS is -p 1, such as a Apple Airport and
> other AP products.  If you're talking to another wireless card (sitting in
> a Linux/BSD box), it's probably IBSS mode, -p 3.  You can only run one
> switch for wicontrol (along with -i, wi0 is the default).

In my limited experience, if (in BSS mode), if you attempt to join
a network of '' (that is, the empty string), you will find the
'first one' automagically...

A subsquent call to wicontrol:

  % wicontril -i wi0

With no other arguments will dump out the current settings, which
include 'requested' vs 'current' SSID (network name)...

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