See atttachment. I have already submit this bug via "report a bug" in Nov last year, but no reply, and the problem still exist in stable-6 now. Any one who knows how to solve this problem ? Thanks...
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<head><title>Problem Report kern/88917 : [ipw] ipw can not work in adhoc mode</title> <meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' /> <meta name='robots' content='nofollow' /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="../layout/css/fixed.css" type="text/css" title="Normal Text" /> <link rel="alternate stylesheet" media="screen" href="../layout/css/fixed_large.css" type="text/css" title="Large Text" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../layout/js/styleswitcher.js"> </script> </head> <body> <div id="containerwrap"> <div id="container"> <span class="txtoffscreen"><a href="#content" title="Skip site navigation" accesskey="1">Skip site navigation</a> (1)</span><span class="txtoffscreen"><a href="#content" title="Skip section navigation" accesskey="2">Skip section navigation</a> (2)</span> <div id="headercontainer"> <div id="header"> <h2 class="blockhide">Header And Logo</h2> <div id="headerlogoleft"> <a href=".." title="FreeBSD"><img src="../layout/images/logo.png" width="360" height="40" alt="FreeBSD" /></a> </div> <div id="headerlogoright"> <h2 class="blockhide">Peripheral Links</h2> <div id="searchnav"> <ul id="searchnavlist"> <li>Text Size: <a href="#" onkeypress="return false;" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('Normal Text'); return false;" title="Normal Text Size">Normal</a> / <a href="#" onkeypress="return false;" onclick="setActiveStyleSheet('Large Text'); return false;" title="Large Text Size">Large</a></li> <li><a href="../donations/" title="Donate">Donate</a></li> <li class="last-child"><a href="../mailto.html" title="Contact">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="search"> <form action="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/search.cgi" method="get"> <div> <h2 class="blockhide"><label for="words">Search</label></h2> <input type="hidden" name="max" value="25" /><input type="hidden" name="source" value="www" /><input id="words" name="words" type="text" size="20" maxlength="255" onfocus="if( this.value==this.defaultValue ) this.value='';" value="Search" /> <input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Search" /> </div> </form> </div> </div> </div> <h2 class="blockhide">Site Navigation</h2> <div id="topnav"> <ul id="topnavlist"> <li><a href="../" title="Home">Home</a></li> <li><a href="../about.html" title="About">About</a></li> <li><a href="../where.html" title="Get FreeBSD">Get FreeBSD</a></li> <li><a href="../docs.html" title="Documentation">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="../community.html" title="Community">Community</a></li> <li><a href="../projects/index.html" title="Developers">Developers</a></li> <li><a href="../support.html" title="Support">Support</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <h1>Problem Report kern/88917 : [ipw] ipw can not work in adhoc mode</h1> <p><strong>[ipw] ipw can not work in adhoc mode</strong></p> <dl> <dt><strong>Confidential</strong></dt><dd> no</dd> <dt><strong>Severity</strong></dt><dd> serious</dd> <dt><strong>Priority</strong></dt><dd> low</dd> <dt><strong>Responsible</strong></dt><dd> <a href='mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></dd> <dt><strong>State</strong></dt><dd> open</dd> <dt><strong>Class</strong></dt><dd> sw-bug</dd> <dt><strong>Submitter-Id</strong></dt><dd> current-users</dd> <dt><strong>Arrival-Date</strong></dt><dd> Sun Nov 13 11:40:22 GMT 2005</dd> <dt><strong>Last-Modified</strong></dt><dd> Fri Jan 13 06:20:38 GMT 2006</dd> <dt><strong>Originator</strong></dt><dd> Li RUi jiang <<a href='mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>></dd> <dt><strong>Release</strong></dt><dd> 6.0</dd> <dt><strong>Organization</strong></dt><dd> </dd> <dd><pre> Fudan university,ShangHai,China </pre></dd> <dt><strong>Environment</strong></dt><dd> </dd> <dd><pre> FreeBSD lith.3322.org 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 4 04:19:50 CST 2005 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM_6 i386 </pre></dd> <dt><strong>Description</strong></dt><dd> </dd> <dd><pre> The machine running windows is set to adhoc mode. ssid is cat On FreeBSD machine, I type: ---------------------------------- ipwcontrol -f /usr/local/share/ipw-firmware/ipw-i.fw ifconfig ipw0 mediaopt adhoc ifconfig ipw0 ssid cat ifconfig ipw0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig ipw0 up ------------------------------------- the led of wireless is on. then the windows machine says that it has detected a wireless network.. I choose join..and it said that the signal is very good. But the windows machine can not receive any packet...and it was sending packet continual. when I --------------------- sysctl net.wlan.debug=-1 sysctl net.wlan.0.debug=-1 -------------------- the first tty said that: "discard frame, not to bss" continual ------------------------------------- I am sure that my wireless card is good, and the windows machine's setting is right, because the wireless worked when I run Windows. My machine is IBM thinkpad T42 and my wireless card is ipw0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI> mem 0xc0210000-0xc0210fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ipw0: Ethernet address:xxxxxxxxxx </pre></dd> <dt><strong>How-To-Repeat</strong></dt><dd> </dd> <dd><pre> The machine running windows is set to adhoc mode. ssid is cat On FreeBSD machine, I type: ---------------------------------- ipwcontrol -f /usr/local/share/ipw-firmware/ipw-i.fw ifconfig ipw0 mediaopt adhoc ifconfig ipw0 ssid cat ifconfig ipw0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig ipw0 up ------------------------------------- the led of wireless is on. then the windows machine says that it has detected a wireless network.. I choose join..and it said that the signal is very good. But the windows machine can not receive any packet...and it was sending packet continual. when I --------------------- sysctl net.wlan.debug=-1 sysctl net.wlan.0.debug=-1 -------------------- the first tty said that:"discard frame, not to bss"continual </pre></dd> </dl><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%20kern/88917:%20%5Bipw%5D%20ipw%20can%20not%20work%20in%20adhoc%20mode">Submit Followup</a> | <a href="./query-pr.cgi?pr=88917&f=raw">Raw PR</a> | <a href="./query-pr-summary.cgi?query">Find Another PR</a> </div> <div id="footer"> <a href="../copyright/">Legal Notices</a> | © 1995-2006 The FreeBSD Project. All rights reserved.<br /> <address><a href='../mailto.html'>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a><br /></address> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>
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