From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Feb 7 15: 4:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760C837B6C1 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:03:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 14Qdcy-0002x7-00 for mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:03:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:03:55 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - windows wavelan interop Message-ID: <20010207180355.A10836@pir.net> Reply-To: mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010207173818.G12123@pir.net> <200102072259.OAA25537@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102072259.OAA25537@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>; from jrb@cs.pdx.edu on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:59:37PM -0800 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Binkley probably said: > what do you mean by a "different" ad-hoc mode? It's bad enough > that there are "two modes" (BSS and ad hoc) the way things are. > Do you mean that Lucent decided that 802.11 was not proprietary > enough to suit them? I don't remember the details, just that several people ahve pointed out that the 6.* windows "ad-hoc" doesn't work with freebsd "adhoc". There may be more details in the archives. I have a vague memory about a change in the standard, or that old ad-hoc wasn't completely standard ... but I may be misremembering. > There is something going on out there in Lucent land. > Lucent decided that a firmware update was needed for some reason, > and e.g., linux drivers < lucent v6.00 will not work with cards that have > had the firmware update made to them. If you didn't actually use > the windows drivers, you may not have noticed that. This can > cause "no lights". On the other hand, I just tried a firmware > updated card with BSD 4.2/wi0 and Bill's driver didn't care about it, > firmware update or no. Still worked. I use updated cards (6.* firmware) with freebsd and windows with BSS mode with no problems, thats about all I do. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message