connecting aironet and lucent 802.11b in ad hoc mode

There is some confusion[1] as to how you get `an` cards to talk to `wi`
cards (cisco aironet talking to lucent) in FreeBSD - it is non-intuitive.

Here is the process:

1. on the wi side, set -c 1, and set -q "something", leave port type BSS.
        (do NOT configure as ad-hoc)

2. on the an side, set -o 0 (ad-hoc) and `-v 1 -n "something"`

3. I have tested this on channels 1,10, and 6, using FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE

        NOTE: output of `ifconfig -a` will say "status: no carrier" on the
        system with the lucent card.  The `ifconfig -a` output on the
        system with the aironet card will say "status: associated"

4. SPEED TEST: (an says 11Mbps <adhoc>, wi says 2Mbps)
      1048576 bytes sent in 2.25 seconds (454.38KB/s)        3.635 mb/s
      1048576 bytes sent in 2.20 seconds (465.75KB/s)        3.726 mb/s
      (got same speeds on a file 10x that big)
      (using laptops with _slow_ (4200 rpm?) hard drives)

Step 1 refers to `wicontrol` commands.  Example: `wicontrol -i wi0 -c 1`

Step 2 refers to `ancontrol` commands.  Example: `ancontrol -i an0 -o 0`


[1] Thread on freebsd-mobile dated 2001-11-12

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