Re: ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?

Lystopad Oleksandr <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 Hello, Ian Smith!

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:21:21PM +1000
[email protected] wrote about "Re: ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?":
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, Lystopad Oleksandr wrote:
>  > Hi!
>  >
>  > I need to build wireless link between FreeBSD 4.11 with wi0 (adhoc)
>  > interface and FreeBSD 7.0 with ral0 interface. I try many modes and
>  > mediaopts, but no luck. :(
>  > 
>  > Please, help me build wireless network with that environment.
> 
> By omission, ral(4) implies that it won't do adhoc or hostap modes -
> despite what ifconfig says below, perhaps what you told it? - so you
> maybe can only use it in a BSS network, to an access point.  Boring.
> 
> That they both say 'associated' means they can 'see' each other, but
> still have no common mode to talk in.  Been there, it's confusing ..
> 
> Possibly the only way these two can talk is if your wi(4) card uses a
> Prism chipset, and so may work in hostap mode.  Mine's a Cabletron with
> Lucent chipset, which can't, but works fine in 11b adhoc or BSS modes. 
> 
> Your best bet might be replacing one or the other with an Atheros card,
> which can do all three of adhoc (IBSS), BSS client or hostap modes, so
> should talk to either - or both, in hostap mode - of the others.

Ian, thank you very much for your quick answer!

Please, point me to 2-3 pci nics with well FreeBSD support which can
do all of modes adhoc, hostap, BSS client.

Thanks.

-- 
 Oleksandr Lystopad
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