RE: wireless question

"wicontrol -p 3" on both machines will change from BSS to ad-hoc mode
(which is how I am running my gateway with dlink pci internal wireless
card and laptop with dlink pcmcia card).  As far as I know, there is no
way to specify using ifconfig adhoc of bss mode, so on laptop find your
card in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf and add "insert wicontrol -p 3" so you
don't have to keep running the command by hand everytime you boot
laptop.  I cant remember off hand where I stuck the wicontrol command
for the gateway box, and I also only have 2 machines, I have no idea
what would happen if you introduced a third wireless card or more, I
have not played around with the boxes for a while, I got them up and
running and have been busy since.

Also, I am not using any encryption at the moment, so I have no clue if
that will throw a spanner in the works or not, may want to disable that
till you get a link up and running and passing traffic first.

Jason



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emanuel Haupt
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: wireless question


hi mailing list,

i have two U.S. Robotics (USR022410) wireless lan cards (PCMCIA Type 2).
one fo these cards comes with a PCMCIA to PCI adapter card.

so i tryed to build an access point with a box running freebsd 4.6. 
after cvsuping to 4.6-STABLE and the necessary kernel options the card 
and the adapter was recognized perfectly (see below --server start--).

the client (a dell laptop running fbsd 5.0-DP1) also recognized the card

perfectly.

i took the following resource as configuration guide: [configuring a
freebsd accesspoint...]
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm

but after all the both machines tell me still: 
        status: no carrier

what did i do wrong? any idea?

thanks in advance
emanuel

--server start--
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::290:d1ff:fe07:b200%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
        inet 10.0.0.77 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        ether 00:90:d1:07:b2:00
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier
        ssid frfa 1:frfa
        stationname alaska
        channel 7 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
        wepkey 1:64-bit
--server end--

--laptop (client) start--
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.0.78 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        inet6 fe80::290:d1ff:fe07:b064%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
        ether 00:90:d1:07:b0:64 
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/2Mbps)
        status: no carrier
        ssid frfa 1:frfa
        stationname alaska
        channel 10 authmode NONE powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
        wepkey 1:64-bit
--laptop end--

--wicontrol output server--
NIC serial number:                      [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name:                           [ alaska ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ frfa ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ frfa ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [ frfa ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 44:44:44:44:44:44 ]
Channel list:                           [ 8191 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 7 ]
Current channel:                        [ 12 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:90:d1:07:b2:00 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 5 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ On ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]
--wicontrol output server end--

--wicontrol output client--
NIC serial number:                      [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name:                           [ alaska ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ frfa ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ frfa ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [ frfa ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 44:44:44:44:44:44 ]
Channel list:                           [ 8191 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 7 ]
Current channel:                        [ 11 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:90:d1:07:b0:64 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ On ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [ 12345 ][  ][  ][  ]
--wicontrol output client end--

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