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demond123

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Registered: 2012-01-17

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Why I can't find my essid?

I have tow computers A and B. A installed archlinux , B installed XP. And I want to share B's PPP Connection via wireless card. I've read the article "Sharing PPP Connection" in archwiki , and I configured B accordingly. But when I finished the configuration , I unable to find the essid on B.
I configured A like this:
[root@myhost ~]# iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
[root@myhost ~]# iwconfig wlan0 essid proxywlan
[root@myhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0 172.168.0.1 up
[root@myhost ~]# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
[root@myhost ~]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

and I can find the essid "proxywlan" on A itself.

[root@myhost ~]# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: D2:DF:C8:A4:8A:B0
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=70/70  Signal level=0 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    ESSID:"proxywlan"
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Extra:tsf=0000000000000000
                    Extra: Last beacon: 87693ms ago
                    IE: Unknown: 000970726F7879776C616E
                    IE: Unknown: 010882040B160C121824
                    IE: Unknown: 030101
                    IE: Unknown: 06020000
                    IE: Unknown: 32043048606C
But on B, I still unable to find the essid. I'm sure that I've configured B to "Ad-Hoc" mode. Anybody who can help me ? Thanks.