From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 26 21:42:56 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 58E0E37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valemount.com (mailgate.valemount.com [209.53.76.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2C843E42 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@valemount.com) Received: from valemount.com ([209.53.76.140]) by valemount.com ([209.53.76.66]) with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v6.0.7.R) for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:42:46 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:42:46 -0700 Subject: Re: getting wi running as a bridge Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: Tony Toole To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tony Toole In-Reply-To: <20020926.213609.03686867.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-Id: <91D3A580-D1D3-11D6-9B61-000393B65F9E@valemount.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) X-Lookup-Warning: SMTP connection lookup on 209.53.76.140 does not match 209.53.76.140 X-MDRemoteIP: 209.53.76.140 X-Return-Path: tony@valemount.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: tony@valemount.com 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 The Orinoco firmware has a complete WDS implementation in both the Station and Tertiary firmware. To set up a WDS link, simply throw the card into port 2 (WDS), and set the corresponding station's MAC address using RID 0xFC08. All traffic between stations will be done on MAC port 0. All you have to do is make sure each station has the same channel. ESSID is not used. It shouldn't be that hard to implement this in an existing BSD driver. This link can be bridged. Good luck On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 08:36 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020926112828.N52066-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> > Jason Hunt writes: > : > To obtain a real 802.11 bridge, you need the cards to be able to > run in > : > so-called WDS mode, but I'm not even sure this is supported with > the > : > PRISM cards, let alone the Orinocos. > : > : Do you mean it's not supported by the driver in FreeBSD? I ask this > : because I have one of those Apple Airports (an older one), and they > use > : Orinoco Silver cards. > > Apple Airports load tertiary firmware into the Orinoco cards to get AP > functionality. There's also a FreeBSD driver for orinoco cards that > loads the AP firmware, but it is just not available to anybody at all > :-(. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message