In message <20021017133237.GA13989@pyy.jmp.fi>, Jukka Marin writes:
>Dear List,
>
>I tried to get a win95 laptop talking to NetBSD 1.6 using Lucent
>Orinoco WLAN cards.  Neither system can see the other.  I tried
>with and without encryption.  NetBSD was in adhoc mode and win95
>in peer-to-peer mode (I assume this is the correct mode?).
>
>Two NetBSD systems can talk to each other, but the windoze box
>can't see the network at all.
>
>Should this work or is it impossible with the current wi driver?
>

That's not the way to do it.  You could put them both in ad hoc mode, 
or you can easily turn the NetBSD machine into a quasi-base station 
with the '-q networkname -c 1' options to wiconfig.  The latter starts 
up IBSS mode.

You need new-enough firmware on the NetBSD system's card.  See
http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html for more 
information.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)