Re: Ad hoc wireless

Nope. I can pick up other APs if I scan, but if I setup an ad-hoc
profile nothing happens; I set the ip, ssid, and channel.

On 7/7/06, Kurtis Peterson <kleedrac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 14:59:17 2006