Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:30:08 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> To: John Brann <john@brann.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLan woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.1000124121828.7179A-100000@lily.ezo.net> In-Reply-To: <20000124114805.A38465@freebie.brann.org>
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I would suggest that you try a different network name ( not FreeBSD IBSS ) so that you can see the Current netname change on successful radio communication. Also, does the Wavepoint II show a connection to the Toshiba? Generally when we set these up we don't use pao and they work fine first time. We don't use "any" but name the network instead. Are you using a startup script for configuration? Here is our setup_wi0 script: #!/bin/sh cmd="wicontrol -i wi0" $cmd -s "Customer Name" $cmd -p 1 $cmd -n "Network Name" echo "Customer Name setup completed" This, of course, has to be identified in pccard.conf with a line like: insert /etc/setup_wi0 Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> #4 ISP on C|NET, #1 in Ohio On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, John Brann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a small wireless network of laptops talking through a ground station > (WavePoint II) to my Ethernet backbone. I'm trying to get a Toshiba > Portege 660 running 3.4-RELEASE (from the CD) to drive a WavaLan card. > > The cards are all IEEE Silver. No encryption is being used (yet). > > The wi0 driver is built into the kernel, and pccardd correctly loads > the driver on card insertion. The MAC address reported is correct. > The power light on the card comes on and wicontrol -i wi0 shows: > > > NIC serial number: [ 99UT11361866 ] > Station name: [ FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ] > SSID for IBSS creation: [ FreeBSD IBSS ] > Current netname (SSID): [ FreeBSD IBSS ] > Desired netname (SSID): [ ANY ] > Current BSSID: [ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ] > Channel list: [ 2047 ] > IBSS channel: [ 3 ] > Current channel: [ 3 ] > Comms quality/signal/noise: [ 0 27 27 ] > Promiscuous mode: [ Off ] > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc): [ 3 ] > MAC address: [ 00:60:1d:1d:25:60 ] > TX rate: [ 3 ] > RTS/CTS handshake threshold: [ 2347 ] > Create IBSS: [ Off ] > Access point density: [ 1 ] > Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off): [ 0 ] > Max sleep time: [ 100 ] > > I can ifconfig the interface. When I try to ping another machine on the > network, I see a brief pulse in the 'traffic' light on the card. > > The WavePoint does not pick up the packets. There is no corresponding > flash on the WavePoint's traffic light. > > A previous thread suggested changing the RTS/CTS threshold to 0. I tried > this, but the results were identical. > > All hardware is working OK, rebooting the machine into NT, using the same > card, works fine. > > Any ideas? > > John > > -- > Unreal City, > Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, > > finger john@doorman.brann.org for pgp public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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