Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:54:31 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: WiFi / ESSID and wi0 Message-ID: <200106102154.f5ALsWU70000@lists.unixathome.org>
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I"m attending a conference on Monday where they are providing wireless acess points. Their instructions include: "You will need to use a WiFi wireless network device, choose 'DMTF' as the ESSID (Extended Service Set ID) and be configured to use DHCP with no encryption." The DHCP bit I can configure. I have an Orinoco Silver card from Lucent technologies (and it has WiFi) printed on it. Looking at man wicontrol, I see: -i iface -q SSID Specify the name of an IBSS (SSID) to create on a given in- terface. The SSID can be any text string up to 30 characters long. Note: this option is provided for experimental purposes only: enabling the creation of an IBSS on a host system doesn't appear to actually work. So can I use SSID instead of ESSID? I also have a gold card if that makes much difference. thanks. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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