Re: wireless question

Brooks Davis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:53:51AM +0200, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:21:51PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <[email protected]>
> >             Phil Kernick <[email protected]> writes:
> > : You can specify adhoc using ifconfig:
> > : 
> > : $ ifconfig wi0 mediaopt adhoc
> > 
> > Only in -current.
> 
> $ uname -sr
> FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE
> $ ifconfig -m wi0
> 	[...]
>         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
> 	[...]

The problem is that that isnt' really adhoc mode in stable because I
scwrewed up when I did the initial implementation.  It's actually the
vendor propriotary mode which you don't really want to use since it
locks you into a subset of cards.

-- Brooks

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