From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri May 3 22:33:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3897637B41A for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 22:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g445XV612129; Fri, 3 May 2002 23:33:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g445XUr13918; Fri, 3 May 2002 23:33:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 23:33:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020503.233320.70552656.imp@village.org> To: jrb@cs.pdx.edu Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warner: re Ad-Hoc with Windows? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200205031706.KAA12273@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> References: <200205031706.KAA12273@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <200205031706.KAA12273@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> Jim Binkley writes: : >Assuming that you have new enough firmware in your lucent cards. You : >need at least 6.0.3 to be able to use non-demo mode ad-hoc (IBSS). : >Otherwise, it won't work, according to reports I've seen. : I thought it was at least 6:06 ?! No telling. The : meta-point about your firmware may bite you is worth repeating : however many times. It ain't your card ... it's your particular : jello in your card. You could be right about that. I was typing from memory. : wicontrol -C was intended for ad hoc mode. Which one could : argue that the IEEE has more or less made defunct. ... but I digress. But it works great in infrastructure mode, since I see things like: [1/3]: 00:50:da:c2:76:e3, 1.0.0.1, sig: -53, noise: -95, qual: 42 [2/3]: 00:00:c0:79:2a:f0, 1.0.0.2, sig: -51, noise: -91, qual: 40 [3/3]: 00:a0:cc:d2:0c:01, 1.0.0.3, sig: -46, noise: -91, qual: 45 but that just gives a range of samples. : wicontrol has : : Comms quality/signal/noise : : which works fine in managed mode. Else wscan would have a hard time ... : It doesn't work in any ad-hoc mode. The comms quality/signal/noise line needs some work. It doesn't always report right. Also, we should normalize to dBm, since different cards have different conversion factors. Lucent does it one way, and prism2 does it another. Don't know about symbol. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message