From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 15:06:37 2003 Return-Path: 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 6974916A4B3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:06:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from swin.edu.au (c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E811F43FDF for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:06:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au) Received: from pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au (pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.26]) by swin.edu.au (8.9.3p2-20030918/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA839953 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:06:33 +1100 (EST) From: paul van den bergen To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:06:33 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200310241025.29518.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <200310240622.40769.postfix@sendmail.ru> <20031024081847.GA25590@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20031024081847.GA25590@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310271006.33411.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Subject: Re: Wireless Cards as Access Points - I'm having a hard day... X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:06:37 -0000 On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:18 pm, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:22:40AM +0400, tokza wrote: > > On Friday 24 October 2003 04:25, paul van den bergen wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > how do I get the cards to act as a AP (server) rather than an AP > > > (client)?? > > > > > > I seem to recall something about turning on the bridging within the > > > card???? > > > > Try http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > > network-wireless.html > > BTW, what tells me which chip I have in my wlan card? Whether it's a > Prism chip set for example? > > I have an ELSA (discontinued AFAICT) Airlancer MC-11. > there is a listing of supported chipsets in the man page of the wi driver... I imagine that the hardware release notes would also have some detail, and ofailing that use the search on freebsd.org to look for references to that chipset... the wi man page mentions ELSA XI300 and XI800... both Prism II failing that, find the chip and search for that chip number on the web (google is your friend) there are some chip sites out there too... good startting points might be sysopt.com, tomshardware.com, driver.com even??? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824