Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:59:44 -0500 From: "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net> To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: 802.11b ad hoc configuration Message-ID: <010701c0ce83$0f00eb50$524c8486@jking>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0104_01C0CE59.25C20F60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a laptop and a desktop, each with a Cisco Aironet 350 802.11b = wireless NIC. I'm trying to get them talking to each other in ad hoc = mode. The laptop runs Win2000 and the desktop dual boots Win2000 and = FreeBSD 4.3-stable. With both boxes running Win2000 things work fine. = When I boot the desktop in FreeBSD I use ifconfig to assign an IP = address to the wireless NIC, and use ancontrol to set ad hoc mode, turn = off WEP, set the SSID, set the node name, set authorization type to = none, and set the radio channel. ancontrol's status/config displays = show that these are being set, and the settings match the laptop, and = after updating to 4.3-stable I'm not seeing any an(4) error messages on = the console. The status displays on both boxes are showing "beacons = received" and "beacons transmitted" counters increasing, so I guess = they're hearing each other at the radio level. However, nothing gets = through at the network level - no ping, etc. Is there some other knob I = need to tweak to get these two to talk to each other? Jim ------=_NextPart_000_0104_01C0CE59.25C20F60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2462.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have a laptop and a desktop, each = with a Cisco=20 Aironet 350 802.11b wireless NIC. I'm trying to get them talking = to each=20 other in ad hoc mode. The laptop runs Win2000 and the desktop dual = boots=20 Win2000 and FreeBSD 4.3-stable. With both boxes running Win2000 = things=20 work fine. When I boot the desktop in FreeBSD I use ifconfig to = assign an=20 IP address to the wireless NIC, and use ancontrol to set ad hoc mode, = turn off=20 WEP, set the SSID, set the node name, set authorization type to none, = and set=20 the radio channel. ancontrol's status/config displays show that = these are=20 being set, and the settings match the laptop, and after updating to = 4.3-stable=20 I'm not seeing any an(4) error messages on the console. The status = displays on both boxes are showing "beacons received" and "beacons = transmitted"=20 counters increasing, so I guess they're hearing each other at the radio=20 level. However, nothing gets through at the network level - no = ping,=20 etc. Is there some other knob I need to tweak to get these two to = talk to=20 each other?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Jim</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0104_01C0CE59.25C20F60-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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