From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 13 1:16:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC60537B406 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 01:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.252.56.169]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020513081634.ETWC2755.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com> for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 09:16:34 +0100 Received: from lfarr (host-199.wifibka.epcdirect.co.uk [192.168.11.199]) by pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4D8GYFY001478 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 09:16:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: Subject: RE: Access point with wi Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:16:35 +0100 Message-ID: <002201c1fa56$7f6f0c00$c70ba8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-reply-to: <200205130424.g4D4OAJ25688@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there an example of how to set this up anywhere? I can get it all to work in AdHoc no problem, but not IBSS/BSS. Cheers! Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of John Hay > Sent: 13 May 2002 05:24 > To: Nick Sayer > Cc: James Satterfield; Larry Rosenman; stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Access point with wi > > > > 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. > > Even that is not good enough. You need a prism2 card with > Intersil firmware > and not Symbol firmware. :-) Only the Intersil firmware have > the hostap > code that we need on the card. > > > > > 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 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. > > >> > > >> > > John > -- > John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message