[Discuss] Wireless Network

[D. S.]

I found this guide helpful:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/wmp11-linux.htm
although, the examples used there are all Managed, not Ad Hoc.

The most helpful hint there (for me) was to turn of the
security/passwords etc., get it running without that, then turn it
back on. (Classic debugging divide and conquer strategy.)  Once I did
that, the rest fell into place.

(The rest being hunting down Win32 drivers for my wifi card,
correcting device codes in the .inf file, and learning to use
ndiswrapper.)

ifconfig ath0
iwconfig ath0

should print some helpful status messages for you.

Good luck!


On 7/7/06, Steven Kurylo <sk at infinitepigeons.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to setup a wirelss ad hoc network. I don't know if I'm
> doing it wrong.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a good guide for ad hoc, but this is the
> command I'm using
>
> iwconfig ath0 mode ad-hoc channel 1 essid test
> ifconfig ath0 10.1.1.1 up
>
> And the samething on the other host, with a different IP.  There is a
> message in the logs saying "ath0 creating bss: ...." but I don't know what that
> means.
>
> Are their some other commands I need to run?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Steven Kurylo
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