Re: ad-hoc wireless mode and ticks (fwd)

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Jason Hunt wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:10:26PM -0800, Kan Cai wrote:
> >
> >   Feel a little confused with the ad-hoc mode set by "wicontrol -p 3", is
> > it Lucent ad-hoc mode instead of the standard IEEE ad-hoc mode (IBSS).
> >
> >   After I use "-p 3" option, it cannot talk to Linux/Windows ad-hoc
> > wireless station. But if I set it to "-p 4", it can do the job. However, I
> > cannot find this option in wicontrol man page or anywhere. Could somebody
> > explain me what's going on here?
>
> Not that it makes a difference (yet), but wicontrol is deprecated and
> (I think) is being removed sooner or later.  You should instead use
> ifconfig to configure wireless interfaces.  To be honest, I'm not sure
> how a new user is supposed to know that.  I only know this from watching
> the mailing lists.
>
> Maybe the wicontrol(8) man page should be updated?
>

I also hope this man page should be updated

> Anyways, read through the wi(4) man page.  It will explain the various
> modes and has some examples.  You might also want to look at the
> ifconfig(8) man page for a listing of available options to configure
> devices with.
>

But when I set the option "mediaopt ibss", I cannot set it back to the AP
mode, or how should I (the ibss-master? it does not work for me)?. I do
not want this wireless station to be the hostAP itself.

Thanks for any help,
Ken

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