Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:46:45 +0800 From: "Daniel Kirkwood" <dmk@worfie.net> To: "Donald Burr of Borg" <dburr@borg-cube.com>, "Warner Losh" <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD Mobile" <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD WaveLAN driver support IBSS (orinoco Peer-to-Peer)? Message-ID: <001101c0e1c1$cf7baae0$170c0b0a@cairo.iteru.net> References: <20010519194104.D44199-100000@localhost> <200105210430.f4L4USE28933@harmony.village.org>
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This works - I did an install of 4.2-RELEASE last night from CD... after some fairly simple configuration hassles I had my Acer laptop working fine on an 11Mb IBSS network, talking to two Win98 machines and a Linux 'gateway'. To do the required setup I created a file /etc/start_if.wi0 with these lines: /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -n aether /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -q aether /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -s stormcloud /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -c 1 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -p 1 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -f 10 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -k xxxxx /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -e 1 'aether' is my wireless network name 'stormcloud' is my hostname (used only for diagnostics in Client Manager) '-c 1' tells the card it may create an IBSS set if it doesn't find one to join '-p 1' tells the card to use infrastructure mode. it appears that with IBSS peer-to-peer this is the right option to use. '-f 10' specifies channel 10 (probably not necessary) '-k xxxxx' would be my WEP key '-e 1' enables encryption Some of these options probably aren't necessary (probably -q) but I thought I'd specify them just to be sure. I did have some problems but these turned out to be my own fault... the network name is case sensitive ;) I beleive in 4.3 the drivers now default to -p 1, so you may not need that. In my testing the card would join an existing IBSS P2P network even if -c 1 wasn't set. When the card has successfully joined the IBSS network the inner LED should be steady on (not flashing) and the outer LED blinking rapidly and intermittently (kindof like you'd expect from a NIC traffic light, although this LED doesn't seem to indicate traffic). My cards have version 6.06 firmware, I beleive you need at least 6.04 for IBSS mode to work. It wasn't the driver that didn't support the mode, it was the firmware. The documentation could perhaps do with some clarification. Overall it was much less painful than the RedHat install ;) Regards, - Daniel. ----- Original Message ----- > In message <20010519194104.D44199-100000@localhost> Donald Burr of Borg writes: > : My question is: is this mode of operation (Peer to peer/IBSS) supported by > : the FreeBSD wi driver in 4.3-STABLE? > > I think so. > > : So it would seem that IBSS mode is *not* supported by the wi driver... but > : I thought I had better check, just in case this information is inaccurate > : or otherwise out of date. > : > : Any ideas as to how I can get my WaveLAN setup working again? > > Did you try it? When I asked about it, I was told the note in the man > page was obsolete. > > Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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