starter attempt at lucent/wicontrol crib sheet

Dear Lucent/prism (and other ... ) wicontrol debating society
colleagues :-> ...

I have attempted to capture the state of my knowledge below
on the 3 known modes for Lucent/prism2 cards and wicontrol
commands therein.

Additions/deletions/rants?

Maybe if we could get this right, we could put it in the man page?

One serious question though:  don't you need to specify the
	channel with IBSS mode?

				regards,

				Jim Binkley
				[email protected]

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Using lucent/prism2 cards:

1. managed mode

	wicontrol -p 1
	wicontrol -n "someessid"

notes:

1.1. wicontrol -n ""

will reassociate with ANY access point.

1.2  channel is NOT given with managed mode.
It is determined by various scanning techniques in
the card firmware.

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2. IBSS ad hoc mode

master:
	wicontrol -p 1
	wicontrol -n "someessid"
	wicontrol -f <somechannel>
	wicontrol -c 1

slaves:
	wicontrol -p 1
	wicontrol -f <somechannel>
	wicontrol -n "someessid"

notes: 

2.1. windows systems have defaulted to channel 10
recently, and to channel 3 with older versions of firmware.

2.2. -c 1 may be given by others, and is non-harmful.

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3. Lucent ad hoc demo mode 

	wicontrol -p 3
	wicontrol -f <somechannel>

notes:
3.1 known to work with at least one prism2 card (D-Link 650).

3.2 essid is not used, as there are no control packets
	other than data-side ACK.


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