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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:31:40 +0100
From:      Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Riccardo Vincelli <r.vincelli@campus.unimib.it>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wpi and adhoc mode on 7.2 rel
Message-ID:  <3a142e750912310731n60b7667fr4a864eeb58b34d1c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2134e7a00912310655x4b2fdb3fo98d6610c51c3c718@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2134e7a00912310655x4b2fdb3fo98d6610c51c3c718@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12/31/09, Riccardo Vincelli <r.vincelli@campus.unimib.it> wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I'm with a FreeBSD 7.2-release on a HP Compaq nc6400; we have plenty of
> these notebooks at disposal, at a very reasonable price, so...
> The card is recognized by the system, but I've got a question-issue:
>
> Is there a way to operate the device in ibss/adhoc mode? The manpage says
> bss is default, but it doesn't tell us how to switch to p2p mode; I haven't
> found no useful posts on this.
> In the handbook various commands issue a "mediaopt adhoc", but "adhoc", it
> doesn't appear as a valid opt value for the mediaopt option, for this
> driver.
> The problem is that I can't put in work the device as a wep-authenticated
> peer, nor with ifconfig, nor with wpa_supplicant (network entry is fine and
> mode=1, but the ssid is constantly skipped: skip - IBSS (adhoc) etc...) as I
> suspect I can't set it in ad-hoc mode.
> tia!

IBSS cap is commented out in source, so it cant work, I dont have card
so cant help more.

-- 
Paul B Mahol



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