In message <JKENJBOELNOIHEHNJPBLIEEMBBAB.ball@impression-technology.com>, "Alle
n D. Ball" writes:
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>OK, I'll jump in -- According to the 1.5 man page (and my experiment with
>1.5), I cannot set mode #2, only #1 or #3.  I cannot experiment with 1.5.1
>and my card, yet, but the 1.5.1 wiconfig man page, like the 1.5 man page, do
>not mention "2" as valid argument for the "-p" option.  Is what you are
>describing implicit with "-c" option in your example?  Or is there a change
>in wiconfig in -current?

I don't think it's anything to do with -current, though the instance of 
it that I've used was indeed on a 1.5R machine.  But for full 
information on requirements and on how to set it up, see
http://www.live.com/wireless/unix-base-station.html -- it's called 
"IBSS mode".


>- -----Original Message-----
>From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
>Behalf Of Kevin Sullivan
>Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 4:01 PM
>To: Michael Richardson
>Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
>Subject: RE: Lucent Orinico and adhoc mode
>
>
>On 16-Jun-01 Michael Richardson wrote:
>>   If others have this working in adhoc mode, please let me know, and
>> I'll assume my card just died.
>
>So, Lucent cards have three modes:
>
>1) BSS mode.  The card tries to connect to a base station.
>2) Peer-to-peer mode.  The card connects to other cards.
>3) Ad-hoc mode.  Old non-standard Lucent-only peer-to-peer mode.
>
>You do not want #3.  (Windows drivers don't even offer the option
>anymore.)  You want mode #2, which is identical to #1 except that one card
>pretends to be a base station for all of the others:
>
>  ifconfig wi0 nwid NETNAME -mediaopt adhoc
>  wiconfig wi0 -c 1
>  wiconfig wi0 -q NETNAME    # This one may not be needed
>
>The network name NETNAME must be the same on all cards.
>
>        -Kevin
>
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