Great. I'll try it. Bummer - it doesn't work. wicontrol dumps on next
iteration after -c 1.
Latest ISA board I have is Model ISAPC-00 with a barcode of 91805300
010053/C. Do you know how I can tell what version of the firmware I have?
I may have to buy a new one (shudder) from Lucent.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Atsushi Onoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: fbsd box acting as a wavelan BS
> > > Last I checked the wi driver will not do IBSS and says so in the
> > > documentation. I also tried it and couldn't get anywhere. Would be
nice.
> >
> > Uh, er, if you mean to create a service set, Lucent apparently hasn't
seen
> > fit to release that sort of information about the cards yet. I can
probably
> > get access to it, but it would be under NDA and therefore not useful.
Your
> > best bet is to bug your friendly neighborhood Lucent rep into releaseing
> > the full documentation (and sample source code) to Bill Paul.
>
> Lucent have shipped newer firmware this March which DOES support creating
> IBSS. The verision 6.04 of the firmware creates IBSS by setting wicontrol
> -c 1 with -p 1 (BSS mode), and joins to IBSS if no access points found.
> It seems that the name of created IBSS follows "network name" specified by
> -n option, not "SSID" by -q option.
>
> Regards,
>
> Atsushi Onoe
>
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