From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 5 14:28:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from spitfire.velocet.net (spitfire.velocet.net [216.138.223.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3B137B41B; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:28:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by spitfire.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5F144A997; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:28:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.11.4/8.9.3) id fB5MSQg42515; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:28:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15374.40842.443973.449316@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:28:26 -0500 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Setting channels on wi0 X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Having just got new wireless network toys, of course I've been playing with them. One thing I noticed almost immediately is that there are several other companies on channel 6 --- which (contrary to the man page) appears to be the default configuration of the cards. I can tell this because "tcpdump" spits out lots of traffic that's not mine. Since I'd rather have my 11Mb to myself, I set about changing the channel of the cards. No go. Here's my terminal capture: [1:10:310]root@canoe:~> ifconfig wi0 wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe0e:3117%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 216.138.242.253 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 216.138.242.255 ether 00:04:5a:0e:31:17 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps) status: associated ssid default stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 6 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 [1:11:311]root@canoe:~> wicontrol -i wi0 -f 3 [1:12:312]root@canoe:~> ifconfig wi0 wi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe0e:3117%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 216.138.242.253 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 216.138.242.255 ether 00:04:5a:0e:31:17 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) status: associated ssid default stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" channel 6 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message