Re: Ad hoc wireless

I don't know much about Ad Hoc as I've never really had an opportunity (or
need) to set one up. My advice would be to try a nice little app called
WiFi Radar. It's what I use on my notebook to connect to my home router (as
it's in stealth mode and using WEP.) I know when I set up a new preffered
network I have the option to configure it for Ad Hoc so you may be able to
set it up in there and tell it to go to Ad Hoc mode from there. I'm not
sure what distro you're running but in Ubuntu it's a quick apt-get install
wifi-radar away :)

On 7/7/06, Steven Kurylo <sk@infinitepigeons.org> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to setup a wirelss ad hoc network. I don't know if I'm
> doing it wrong, or if I really don't have any signal.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a good guide for ad hoc, 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 saying "ath0 creating bss: ...." but I don't know what that
> means.
>
> Are their some other commands I need to run? Or should I look into the
> signal side?
>
> Thanks.
>
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Received on Fri Jul 7 14:03:57 2006