wpi and adhoc mode on 7.2 rel

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/31/09, Riccardo Vincelli <r.vincelli at campus.unimib.it> wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I'm with a FreeBSD 7.2-release on a HP Compaq nc6400; we have plenty of
> these notebooks at disposal, at a very reasonable price, so...
> The card is recognized by the system, but I've got a question-issue:
>
> Is there a way to operate the device in ibss/adhoc mode? The manpage says
> bss is default, but it doesn't tell us how to switch to p2p mode; I haven't
> found no useful posts on this.
> In the handbook various commands issue a "mediaopt adhoc", but "adhoc", it
> doesn't appear as a valid opt value for the mediaopt option, for this
> driver.
> The problem is that I can't put in work the device as a wep-authenticated
> peer, nor with ifconfig, nor with wpa_supplicant (network entry is fine and
> mode=1, but the ssid is constantly skipped: skip - IBSS (adhoc) etc...) as I
> suspect I can't set it in ad-hoc mode.
> tia!

IBSS cap is commented out in source, so it cant work, I dont have card
so cant help more.

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Paul B Mahol