On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:26:14PM -0500, Jacob Ansari wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Maybe I'm really missing something, but I can't seem to get my 3com > AirConnect wlan pcmcia card to operate in promiscuous mode. This is on w2k > pro and winnt4 (sp6a). Couldn't get the Linksys WPC11 card to work in > promiscuous mode either. Still trying to get either card to behave in > openbsd, so no definitive answer on that either (clues in this area would > be appreciated as well; mail me off-list...). In all cases, I'm trying to > connect to a 3com access point box which connects back to my LAN. Any > ideas would be appreciated. Both the 'an' (AiroNet/ e.g. Cisco 340) and the 'wi' (WaveLan/Lucent/new compaq) driver in OpenBSD This feature makes it possible to support stand alone operation without AP. As the man pages AN(4) and WI(4) says: "In this mode, stations can communicate among each other without the aid of an access point." /magnus -- ::::... Magnus Bodin :::::::... http://x42.com/ ::::::::::::::......... taenosihclpmrd)./w(g4fv0q3kb,:y
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