From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 5 7:57: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from btclick.com (mta02.btfusion.com [62.172.195.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38EFC37B449 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 07:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@magneticscrolls.com) Received: from t500nt4 ([213.120.146.180]) by btclick.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id GBBQV103.548; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:57:01 +0100 Message-ID: <002301c0bde0$a5b6d2c0$0a00a8c0@magneticscrolls.com> From: "Ken Gordon" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: References: <003b01c0bdb7$5d1647e0$0a00a8c0@magneticscrolls.com> <20010405031102.I17723@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010405031453.J17723@fw.wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: prismII for 4.x Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:56:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Many thanks, it works* now, the only hassle was working out why my Linksys ethernet card stopped! BTW what is the situation with (a) Ad-Hoc mode and (b) using a FreeBSD machine as an AP. In linux land the there is no support for Ad-Hoc as yet and using a linux box as an AP involves downloading special firmware to the card. This firmware isn't easily available and the driver author is not interested in supporting access points. To explain what I'm doing - I've got a StrongArm machine (iPaq) running linux (I may move to NetBSD if I have time) using a WL100 card as a kind of hand held terminal. I'd like it to talk to a FreeBSD machine via wireless. The packets don't need to go anywhere after that (ie the FreeBSD box has no other network card) (yet). The iPaq can only be a 'station' (since no ad-hoc support) so the PC box has to be an AP. Thanks again! This was MUCH less pain than it might have been! Ken * well I can ping! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: "Ken Gordon" Cc: ; Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: Re: prismII for 4.x > * Alfred Perlstein [010405 03:11] wrote: > > * Ken Gordon [010405 03:01] wrote: > > > OK, so how did you do it? I get this sort of problem: > > > > > > * $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/isa/if_wi.c,v 1.18.2.5 2000/09/07 17:10:41 wpaul > > > Exp $ > > > > For prism2 you ought to get the most recent version of FreeBSD 4.x, see: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html > > > > then apply this diff: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/wi.diff > > > > like so: > > > > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/ > > fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/wi.diff > > patch < wi.diff > > > > then build your kernel/modules. > > Let me also state that I'm still having a real hard time getting > two addrons to talk to each other, I usually wind up bringing one > host up and then the other locks up while doing what seems like > negotiation with newly brought up card. > > Warner seems to have no problems, so maybe it's an addtron<->addtron > thing, or he's just not able to reproduce the problem i'm having. > > I'm trying this on both sides: > > both> wicontrol -i wi0 -p 3 > both> wicontrol -i wi0 -f 3 > router> ifconfig wi0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > laptop> ifconfig wi0 inet 10.0.0.5 netmask 0xff000000 > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ > > 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