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From: Gareth Williams <gareth@venditor.com>
To: David Dooley <dpd@raffles-it.com>
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Subject: Re: Wireless Networking 
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David,

Thanks for that information, I'll give it a try as soon as I get home from
work.  I'll report back, showering you with compliments if it works. 

Cheers,

Gareth

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, David Dooley wrote:

> Gareth,
> 
> I have an Orinoco RG and am using a Orinoco Gold Card. To get it all to work I 
> turned off DHCP on the  RG and basically set it up as a bridge to my lan. I 
> all ready had a DHCP server on the LAN and the RG defaults to serveing 
> 10.0.0.0 net work addresses. This step had to be done via the windows client 
> software supplied.
> 
> Once the RG was configured I set up the cd in my laptop by taking a copy of 
> /etc/defaults/pccardd.conf and putting it in /etc. I then hacked it untill it 
> just had a section for the Orinoco card and added varius wicontrol commands to 
> configured it to use the default encryption provided. The network ID is the on 
> the  spine of the RG under the cover and the encryption key is the last 5 
> digits of the same ID. I spent a lot of time getting evry thing working with 
> windows on the laptop trying to talk to my freeBSD box once I had all that 
> working I started playing with wicontrol and fond that the parameters below 
> worked for me.
> 
> I belive now that this way of doing the configuration may not have been the 
> best. It certinly works for me but I belive that these wicontrol commands 
> should now go in /etc/start_if.wi0, I havnen't spent much more time looking in 
> to this way of doing things as I am about to embark on a complete rebuild of 
> the laptop and will play with it then.
> 
> But for what it's worth here is my config from /etc/pccardd.conf and the 
> relevent sections of /etc/rc.conf
> 
> pccardd.conf
> ------------
> # Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE
> card "Lucent Technologies" "WaveLAN/IEEE"
> 	config	0x1 "wi" ?
> 	insert	/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -s ANY
> 	insert	/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -n <6 digits> 	# Network ID
> 	insert	/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -k <last 5 digits from 6 above> -v 1	# 
> Encrypt Key
> 	insert	/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -T 1
> 	insert	/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -e 1
> 	insert	/usr/sbin/wicontrol -i $device -p 1
> 	insert	/etc/pccard_ether $device start
> 	remove	/etc/pccard_ether $device stop
> 
> 
> rc.conf
> -------
> pccard_enable="YES"
> pccard_ifconfig="DHCP"
> hostname="<FQDM>"
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> David.
> 
> 
> 


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