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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2012 10:17:22 +0200
From:      Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
To:        Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: iwn adhoc mode
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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > and when I try to setup the connection manually with ifconfig I get
> > ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Operation not supported
> > and from reading older postings it seems that iwn has a problem with
> ad-hoc
> > mode.
>
> Indeed, adding Adhoc/IBSS support to iwn(4) is *still* on my TODO list.
>
> --
> Bernhard
>

Thanks for clarifying. Do you have an ETA for it as well? ;)

In the meantime maybe the IWN(4) should not claim support for adhoc, or is
it supported on some cards and not on others?

Best regards
Andreas



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