Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:08:14 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: jqdkf@army.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adhoc doesn't work with centrino Message-ID: <20040305190814.A69FB16A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040305012447.GA774@cactus.homeunix.org> from "jqdkf@army.com" at "Mar 5, 2004 09:24:47 am"
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> Hi,
>
> My wireless card is "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter".
> With ndiswrapper, it works fine in BSS mode, but I can't make it work in
> adhoc mode. Here is my configuration:
>
> $ ifconfig ndis0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 \
> ssid CACTUS mode 11b mediaopt adhoc up
[...]
Uhm... leave out the "mode 11b" part. You don't have to do anything
to force 11b mode (especially since most Centrino NICs are 11b only
anyway).
Just do:
# ifconfig ndis0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 \
ssid CATCUS mediaopt adhoc up
I have gotten ad-hoc mode to work on the Centrino with my home network
(it was the first thing I tested) so you ought to be able to get it
to connect. Be wary of getting too clever with setting media options with
ifconfig on if_ndis at this point: it needs work.
The two things which I know will work are:
# ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt adhoc <-- select adhoc mode
# ifconfig ndis0 media autoselect <-- select BSS mode
If it doesn't associate right away, you might try doing
"ifconfig ndis0 down; ifconfig ndis0 up" once or twice to reset it,
though in my tests I don't think this was necessary.
Also, the only useful thing you can do with wicontrol(8) at this
point is an AP scan:
# wicontrol -i ndis0 -l
The only reason wicontrol does this is... er... well... we don't have
any other standard utility in FreeBSD that can do it.
-Bill
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