Re: WEP in Lucent silver card

[Dan Harnett <danh@wzrd.com>]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 10:17:40 +1030
Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

> On Friday,  1 March 2002 at  9:59:07 -0500, Dan Harnett wrote:
> >
> > Do you have a base station?  If not, you need to set the port type to 3.
> 
> There are two ways of running without a base station.  You can use
> "demo ad hoc" mode (port type 3), but this is a non-standard method
> and limits the kinds of cards you can talk to.  The other is IBSS
> mode, where one of the cards simulates a base station.  This
> interoperates better, both with other cards and other systems.  To set
> this, keep port 1, but on the machine you want to simulate the bas
> station, set the "create IBSS" bit (wicontrol -c 1).

I wouldn't necessarily say that it interoperates better.  The manual
page for wicontrol states the "-c" option as "Lucent only".