Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows?

John Hay <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> : > - The BSDs are doing it wrong.  We should be using IBSS mode, not demo
> : >   ad-hoc.
> 
> ad-hoc is insufficient.  We should create a media option like OpenBSD
> has called master-ibss which does the right thing for the different
> types of hardware.

You mean something like this? :-)

# uname -a
FreeBSD  4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #9: Fri May  3 12:13:19 GMT 2002     [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMALL  i386
# dmesg | grep wi0
wi0 at port 0x100-0x13f irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:02:2d:25:5f:ba
wi0: using Lucent Embedded WaveLAN/IEEE
wi0: Lucent Firmware: Station 6.14.01
# ifconfig -m wi0
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::202:2dff:fe25:5fba%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
        ether 00:02:2d:25:5f:ba
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <ibss-master> (DS/2Mbps <ibss>)
        status: associated
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media autoselect mediaopt ibss-master
                media autoselect mediaopt ibss
                media autoselect mediaopt adhoc
                media manual
                media DS/11Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
                media DS/11Mbps mediaopt ibss
                media DS/11Mbps mediaopt adhoc
                media DS/11Mbps
                media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
                media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt ibss
                media DS/5.5Mbps mediaopt adhoc
                media DS/5.5Mbps
                media DS/2Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
                media DS/2Mbps mediaopt ibss
                media DS/2Mbps mediaopt adhoc
                media DS/2Mbps
                media DS/1Mbps mediaopt ibss-master
                media DS/1Mbps mediaopt ibss
                media DS/1Mbps mediaopt adhoc
                media DS/1Mbps
#

John
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