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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2002 20:23:34 -0700
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        James Satterfield <james@floondoon.com>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Access point with wi
Message-ID:  <3CDF31B6.90403@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <200205111317.23509.james@floondoon.com> <1021160531.525.2.camel@lerlaptop> <200205121344.54519.james@floondoon.com>

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It doesn't work with Orinocco cards. You need to get one of the prism2 
based cards, such as a Netgear MA401, or the Linksys, US Robotics, 
SMC... Look at /etc/defauls/pccard.conf for 'config auto "wi" ? 0x10000' 
lines. The 0x1000 flags says that that card is a prism2.

James Satterfield wrote:
> Larry,
> Thanks for the heads up. Near as I can tell, the man pages for wicontrol and 
> ifconfig haven't changed to reflect this change. Hence, I don't see how to 
> turn that on. All of my supported media types are still adhoc. I'm running 
> stable as of May 10th. Any pointers you could give would be great.
> 
> James.
> 
> On Saturday 11 May 2002 04:42 pm, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 15:17, James Satterfield wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any code to do this yet? It's my understanding that this code
>>>does exist but hasn't been released due to some "issues" with lucent?
>>
>>ler@lerlaptop$ ifconfig -m wi0
>>wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>	inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fea8:e017%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>>	inet 207.158.72.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 207.158.72.255
>>	ether 00:06:25:a8:e0:17
>>	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>>	status: associated
>>	supported media:
>>		media autoselect mediaopt hostap
>>		media DS/11Mbps mediaopt hostap
>>		media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt hostap
>>		media DS/2Mbps mediaopt hostap
>>		media DS/1Mbps mediaopt hostap
>>		media autoselect
>>		media autoselect mediaopt adhoc
>>		media DS/11Mbps
>>		media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc
>>		media DS/5.5Mbps
>>		media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt adhoc
>>		media DS/2Mbps
>>		media DS/2Mbps mediaopt adhoc
>>		media DS/1Mbps
>>		media DS/1Mbps mediaopt adhoc
>>	ssid "LERCTR NETWORK" 1:""
>>	stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
>>	channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>>	wepmode OFF weptxkey 1
>>ler@lerlaptop$ uname -a
>>FreeBSD lerlaptop 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #18: Sat May 11
>>15:14:16 CDT 2002     ler@lerlaptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP  i386
>>ler@lerlaptop$
>>
>>Yes, it's in RELENG_4 as of about 2 weeks ago.
>>
>>
>>>James.
>>>
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