From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 9 23:44:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E1237B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helb.tcpipbitch.net (gw.tcpipbitch.net [208.59.233.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9649743E4A for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@vanbrecht.com) Received: from deathstar (desktop.tcpipbitch.net [192.168.10.3]) by helb.tcpipbitch.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC84639D; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:43:57 -0400 (EDT) From: To: "'M. Warner Losh'" Cc: , Subject: RE: wireless question Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:44:51 -0400 Message-ID: <001401c227dd$4a8067a0$030aa8c0@tcpipbitch.net> 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 10.0.2627 In-reply-to: <20020709.222132.11429410.imp@bsdimp.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I discovered this.. This is another case of me opening my mouth before doing a lil research. I checked the wi man page, and it listed a whole series of examples with regards to ifconfig. Been running in access point mode (which is what I actually wanted to do in the first place) for the past 4 hours quite nicely. Jason -----Original Message----- From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:imp@bsdimp.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:22 AM To: freebsd-mobile@tcpipbitch.net Cc: haupt@outof.ch; freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wireless question If you are trying to do an access point, you really should use a real access point mode (aka hostap) rather than the ad-hoc kludges that have been published on the web. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message