ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?

[Lystopad Oleksandr]

 Hello, Sam Leffler!

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:12:32AM -0700
sam at freebsd.org wrote about "Re: ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?":
> Ian Smith wrote:
> >On Tue, 27 May 2008, Lystopad Oleksandr wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > 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.
> >  
> 
> ral should do ap mode and the driver claims to do ibss though I've not 
> tried it.  When in doubt
> 
> ifconfig ral0 list caps

I have two wireless nics on same host, I show two answers:

[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]# ifconfig ral0 list caps
ral0=2181e500<IBSS,HOSTAP,TXPMGT,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,WPA1,WPA2,BGSCAN>
[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]# ifconfig rum0 list caps
rum0=2181e500<IBSS,HOSTAP,TXPMGT,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,WPA1,WPA2,BGSCAN>
[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]#

 
> should show the supported operating modes (ifconfig -m ral0 on 7.x and 
> earlier).

Yes, it shows, but adhoc mode does not work with wi0 from FreeBSD 4.11 

> >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 ..
> >  
> 
> "associated" is a misnomer for anything but station mode.  In HEAD I 
> changed this status to say "running" for !sta mode.
> 
> To understand what's happening in 7.0 you can turn on debugging with 
> wlandebug and/or check the neighbor table with

[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]# wlandebug -i rum0 scan+assoc+debug+input+output+state+dot1x
net.wlan.0.debug: 0x0 => 0x48ba0000<debug,input,assoc,scan,output,state,dot1x>
[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]# wlandebug -i ral0 scan+assoc+debug+input+output+state+dot1x
net.wlan.1.debug: 0x0 => 0x48ba0000<debug,input,assoc,scan,output,state,dot1x>
[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]#

> ifconfig ral0 list sta

[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]# ifconfig ral0
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:0f:66:74:8b:2b
        inet 192.168.126.2 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 192.168.126.3
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
        status: no carrier
        ssid 42bc9b channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11b)
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1
[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]# ifconfig ral0 list sta
ifconfig: unable to get station information
[root at pavilion /usr/home/laa]#

> >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.
> >  
> Try getting some debug info.  It'd also be worth identifying which 
> ralink card is being used as the driver is actually a sandwich of N 
> drivers, one for each part, and each totally separate.
> 
>    Sam

My ral0 card is Linksys WMP54G, my rum0 card is 
rum0: <Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3> on uhub1

Both cant work with wi0 card from FreeBSD 4.11.

Please, help me to create adhoc network with any of wi0 (4.11), ral0 and 
rum0 on 7.0-STABLE. 

Thank you very much, Sam!!!

-- 
 Oleksandr Lystopad