From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 5 8:11:37 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 08:11:35 2001 Return-Path: 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 B010A37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:11:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 14EZSf-0003uw-00 for mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:11:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:11:24 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Message-ID: <20010105111124.A14025@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200101042033.f04KXVJ17907@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dmlb@dmlb.org on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:40:10AM -0000 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Duncan Barclay probably said: > This is not true. Ad-hoc mode is part of the 802.11 standard and IMO is > more useful for a home network than the added expense of an access point. > Ad-hoc mode will not be removed from 802.11 as it represents a valuable > part of the LAN configuration. but it's being removed from lucent's Windows drivers in favor of a slightly different mode. The actual discussion was about making adhoc no longer the _default_ not removing it from the freebsd driver. As wireless becomes more and more common, fewer and fewer people will use adhoc, IMO. If you are doing adhoc it usually means you're at home and can do an installation over ether instead. I've already had to create a fixit floppy (containing wicontrol) for several friends trying to install freebsd at work where there were base stations as the only connectivity available for laptops. Hopefully bringing the wicontrol functionality into ifconfig will remove this problem since you can then just change the mode with 'extra options to ifconfig' in sysinstall. > An infrastructure network offers you two things over ad-hoc > - power saving > - distributed services > Power saving is useful. A distributed service requires multiple access points > connected to provide a wide coverage area. > Both of these could be implemented in FreeBSD and I will be looking at both > of these. Power saving has already been implemented. wicontrol -P 1 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