Re: ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?
Lystopad Oleksandr <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"