Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:15:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Peterson <matt@peterson.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WiFi / ESSID and wi0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106101507410.6044-100000@moaner.org> In-Reply-To: <200106102154.f5ALsWU70000@lists.unixathome.org>
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In short, an ESSID = a group of SSID's (common network name shared across multiple AP's for roaming support). Since they're providing AP's, put your card into BSS (wicontrol -p 1) mode and explicitly specify the network name (wicontrol -n "DMTF"). --Matt Peterson Bay Area Wireless Users Group <http://www.bawug.org/>; On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Dan Langille wrote: > I"m attending a conference on Monday where they are providing > wireless acess points. Their instructions include: > > "You will need to use a WiFi wireless network device, choose 'DMTF' as > the ESSID (Extended Service Set ID) and be configured to use DHCP > with no encryption." > > The DHCP bit I can configure. > > I have an Orinoco Silver card from Lucent technologies (and it has WiFi) > printed on it. Looking at man wicontrol, I see: > > -i iface -q SSID > Specify the name of an IBSS (SSID) to create on a given in- > terface. The SSID can be any text string up to 30 characters > long. > > Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes only: > enabling the creation of an IBSS on a host system doesn't > appear to actually work. > > So can I use SSID instead of ESSID? I also have a gold card if that > makes much difference. > > thanks. > > -- > Dan Langille > pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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