ral0 <--> wi0 (4.11) ?

[Ian Smith]

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Sam Leffler wrote:
 > 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

.. read the code, not the manual :) and I did check the 8-CURRENT mans.

Thanks for the correction, Sam.  I was just punting till 'someone like
you' turned up.

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

Great.

 > To understand what's happening in 7.0 you can turn on debugging with 
 > wlandebug and/or check the neighbor table with
 > 
 > ifconfig ral0 list sta

I see Oleksandr has now picked up on this so I'll butt out, a bit better
informed.

cheers, Ian