Re: wireless question

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message: <[email protected]>
            Brooks Davis <[email protected]> writes:
: 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.

Yes.  I have to MFC the support from -current for ad-hoc and ibss
mode, but haven't had time to do the work.  I'm also waiting for
someone to implement ibss/ibss-master in the an driver too so that I
can merge that at the same time and things will be consistant.  Hmmm,
maybe I should go do the awi driver when I do that.

Warner

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