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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:54:41 -0800
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Connecting to a Intel 2011 AP
Message-ID:  <980481281.3a70f501b9d30@Mail.MexComUSA.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010125160423.B31259@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Quoting Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:35:37PM -0800, Edwin Culp wrote:
> > For the Intel AP, I change the configuration to not use Short RF Preamble. 
> On
> > the wi0 I change the name -n and the port with -p and it tries to work.  I
> can
> > ping but when I try telnet, I get the login and then the passwd then it
> hangs. 
> > Web pages are the same way.  It looks up the site, clears the browser
> screen and
> > hangs.
> > 
> > I switch AP's and it works perfectly with no other change. 
> 
> This sounds like a problem I had with a Cisco Access point.  I could
> ping some hosts, but not all of them on the net it was attached to.
> It was very odd.  The solution was to revert a couple setting to default.
> One was the "Ethernet Encapsulation Transform" which had been set to
> 802.1H and was reverted to RFC1042.  The other one was turning off some
> Cisco specific extensions.  I'd also note that you probably don't want
> to disable Short Preamble.  It's the default and works just fine here.

The manual suggested it but I think that you're right, I should start with the
defaults and change things one by one util it works.  

Thanks,

ed
> 
> -- Brooks
> 
> -- 
> Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
> 



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