linux/netbsd wireless interoperability

Brett Lymn blymn at baesystems.com.au
Tue Oct 14 14:14:37 EST 2003


On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:47:22PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> Chances are the problem is that the NetBSD box is using the old "demo"
> ad-hoc mode, wheras the Linux box is using the 802.11 standardised
> IBSS ad-hoc mode - they're not interoperable.
> 

Hmmmm I seem to recall that NetBSD changed the default from the old
demo mode to the standardised ad-hoc mode a while back - having said
that, I may have stuck with the old demo mode.  I shall check.  Thanks.

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Brett Lymn



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