From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 5 8:40: 2 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 08:39:58 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1319637B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dmlb.org ([62.253.135.85]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010105163957.ISCG285.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@dmlb.org>; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:39:57 +0000 Received: from dmlb by dmlb.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 14EZuH-0007L3-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:39:57 +0000 Content-Length: 1839 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010105111124.A14025@pir.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:39:57 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Peter Radcliffe Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi On 05-Jan-01 Peter Radcliffe wrote: > 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. i.e. infrastructure? > 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. Hmm, just to get this straight in my head. I suppose we have three user profiles: - people at work with APs - people at home with an AP - people at home using ad-hoc and a FreeBSD box to gateway the wireless to something else It does seem that the default should be infrastructure mode. > 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. Yup. > P. > > -- > pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message