ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?

[Ian Smith]

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Lystopad Oleksandr wrote:
 > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:21:21PM +1000
 > smithi at nimnet.asn.au wrote about "Re: ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?":
 > > On Tue, 27 May 2008, Lystopad Oleksandr wrote:
 > >  > I need to build wireless link between FreeBSD 4.11 with wi0 (adhoc)
 > >  > interface and FreeBSD 7.0 with ral0 interface. I try many modes and
 > >  > mediaopts, but no luck. :(
 > >  > 
 > >  > Please, help me build wireless network with that environment.
 > > 
 > > By omission, ral(4) implies that it won't do adhoc or hostap modes -
 > > despite what ifconfig says below, perhaps what you told it? - so you
 > > maybe can only use it in a BSS network, to an access point.  Boring.
 > > 
 > > That they both say 'associated' means they can 'see' each other, but
 > > still have no common mode to talk in.  Been there, it's confusing ..
 > > 
 > > Possibly the only way these two can talk is if your wi(4) card uses a
 > > Prism chipset, and so may work in hostap mode.  Mine's a Cabletron with
 > > Lucent chipset, which can't, but works fine in 11b adhoc or BSS modes. 
 > > 
 > > Your best bet might be replacing one or the other with an Atheros card,
 > > which can do all three of adhoc (IBSS), BSS client or hostap modes, so
 > > should talk to either - or both, in hostap mode - of the others.
 > 
 > Ian, thank you very much for your quick answer!

Nothing much on TV :)

 > Please, point me to 2-3 pci nics with well FreeBSD support which can
 > do all of modes adhoc, hostap, BSS client.

Passing this back to the list .. I only have the old wi pccard myself.

ath(4) shows lots of brands/models and is very actively supported by
sam@, but people can perhaps recommend others that can do all modes? 

cheers, Ian