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#1 2009-01-28 09:29:46

bogomips
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Registered: 2009-01-28
Posts: 16

Wireless Ad-Hoc mode

Hi everyone, it's my first post after the first few days with arch (which I find great).

Now I have a small via c7 pc and I bought a wireless pen dwl-122g, sure that it was easy to make it act like a router over the wireless card.

It seems that it is possible using the Ad-Hoc mode, so I installed the right driver and did something like that
http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2005.10.23.html

Everything looks fine but I don't get the last step, who can I join that wireless network??
I use a mac (with leopard) as a client, but I can't find the "Koala" (that's the essid) network anywhere.

Am I missing something?

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#2 2009-01-28 17:10:40

bogomips
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Registered: 2009-01-28
Posts: 16

Re: Wireless Ad-Hoc mode

This is my iwconfig output
wlan0     RT73 WLAN  ESSID:"Koala" 
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Cell: CA:8D:8A:6A:A4:6C   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level:-121 dBm  Noise level:-99 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

And this is ifconfig
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:B0:D0:CC:D0 
          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:b0ff:fed0:ccd0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:469 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:42386 (41.3 Kb)

Is there anything wrong??

Why I'm not able to detect any wireless network??

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