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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