Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:28:21 +0100 From: Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk> To: Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> Cc: Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>, wes <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS Message-ID: <39AC1CE5.70C4FA9@cs.ucl.ac.uk> References: <39A9E49D.A79BF6FD@softweyr.com> <200008280703.e7S732S01248@duplo.sm.sony.co.jp> <003e01c011f4$31770530$81d396ce@ezo.net>
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Jim Flowers wrote: > Great. I'll try it. Bummer - it doesn't work. wicontrol dumps on next > iteration after -c 1. > > Latest ISA board I have is Model ISAPC-00 with a barcode of 91805300 > 010053/C. Do you know how I can tell what version of the firmware I have? > I may have to buy a new one (shudder) from Lucent. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Atsushi Onoe" <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp> > To: <wes@softweyr.com> > Cc: <jflowers@peony.ezo.net>; <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; <eric@svjava.com>; > <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 3:03 AM > Subject: Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS > > > > > Last I checked the wi driver will not do IBSS and says so in the > > > > documentation. I also tried it and couldn't get anywhere. Would be > nice. > > > > > > Uh, er, if you mean to create a service set, Lucent apparently hasn't > seen > > > fit to release that sort of information about the cards yet. I can > probably > > > get access to it, but it would be under NDA and therefore not useful. > Your > > > best bet is to bug your friendly neighborhood Lucent rep into releaseing > > > the full documentation (and sample source code) to Bill Paul. > > > > Lucent have shipped newer firmware this March which DOES support creating > > IBSS. The verision 6.04 of the firmware creates IBSS by setting wicontrol > > -c 1 with -p 1 (BSS mode), and joins to IBSS if no access points found. > > It seems that the name of created IBSS follows "network name" specified by > > -n option, not "SSID" by -q option. > > > > Regards, > > > > Atsushi Onoe > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message Jim, I think the firmware is not with the ISA bridge but with the wavelan card...If it is what I think then you should be able to upgrade the firmware through a windows box with the facility they provide together with the firmware upgrade.. Theo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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