Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 06:24:10 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Cc: james@floondoon.com (James Satterfield), ler@lerctr.org (Larry Rosenman), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Access point with wi Message-ID: <200205130424.g4D4OAJ25688@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3CDF31B6.90403@quack.kfu.com> from Nick Sayer at "May 12, 2002 08:23:34 pm"
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> It doesn't work with Orinocco cards. You need to get one of the prism2 > based cards, such as a Netgear MA401, or the Linksys, US Robotics, > SMC... Look at /etc/defauls/pccard.conf for 'config auto "wi" ? 0x10000' > lines. The 0x1000 flags says that that card is a prism2. Even that is not good enough. You need a prism2 card with Intersil firmware and not Symbol firmware. :-) Only the Intersil firmware have the hostap code that we need on the card. > > James Satterfield wrote: > > Larry, > > Thanks for the heads up. Near as I can tell, the man pages for wicontrol and > > ifconfig haven't changed to reflect this change. Hence, I don't see how to > > turn that on. All of my supported media types are still adhoc. I'm running > > stable as of May 10th. Any pointers you could give would be great. > > > > James. > > > > On Saturday 11 May 2002 04:42 pm, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 15:17, James Satterfield wrote: > >> > >>>Is there any code to do this yet? It's my understanding that this code > >>>does exist but hasn't been released due to some "issues" with lucent? > >> > >>ler@lerlaptop$ ifconfig -m wi0 > >>wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > >> inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fea8:e017%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > >> inet 207.158.72.14 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 207.158.72.255 > >> ether 00:06:25:a8:e0:17 > >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect > >> status: associated > >> supported media: > >> media autoselect mediaopt hostap > >> media DS/11Mbps mediaopt hostap > >> media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt hostap > >> media DS/2Mbps mediaopt hostap > >> media DS/1Mbps mediaopt hostap > >> media autoselect > >> media autoselect mediaopt adhoc > >> media DS/11Mbps > >> media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc > >> media DS/5.5Mbps > >> media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt adhoc > >> media DS/2Mbps > >> media DS/2Mbps mediaopt adhoc > >> media DS/1Mbps > >> media DS/1Mbps mediaopt adhoc > >> ssid "LERCTR NETWORK" 1:"" > >> stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node" > >> channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 > >> wepmode OFF weptxkey 1 > >>ler@lerlaptop$ uname -a > >>FreeBSD lerlaptop 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #18: Sat May 11 > >>15:14:16 CDT 2002 ler@lerlaptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP i386 > >>ler@lerlaptop$ > >> > >>Yes, it's in RELENG_4 as of about 2 weeks ago. > >> > >> John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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