Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:47:56 +0100 (CET) From: Gareth Williams <gareth@venditor.com> To: David Dooley <dpd@raffles-it.com> Cc: Gareth Williams <gareth@venditor.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless Networking Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103230946510.372-100000@node0b2a.a2000.nl> In-Reply-To: <200103230102.f2N12U058824@dribble.lan.raffles-it.com>
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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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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