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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?

Thanks.

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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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