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hey all. I use a wired network connection with my main comp, have netcfg2 set up and working perfectly with it. I also have a wirless card in my main and am looking to conduct some internet connection sharing wirelessly with another computer, I am able to set up the wireless card manually into ad-hoc mode and am using firestarter to get iptables correctly configured, it works great when manually set up. I understand how to connect to wireless networks using netcfg2, but I haven't been able to find any information concerning a way to autostart the card in ad-hoc mode and correctly bring it up. I tried guessing what the option would be with:
MODE:"ad-hoc"
in my net-profile. When I try to bring this connection up however, the card stays in managed mode. If I the switch it to ad-hoc mode I get a failure if I try to bring that net-profile down again. I'm wondering if what I am trying to do is possible to automate with netcfg2 and how to go about doing it. My wireless interface is wlan0 and the ip I am trying to assign it is 192.168.100.1 (the gateway for the ICS). The essid will be khordes, no WEP or WPA yet, just trying to get a consistent working system before I add an extra level of confusion in there :-) Anyhelp ya'll can give would be greatly appreciated. BTW, been using Arch since May 07, deployed to Afghanistan right now and still having a great time with it, gives me something else to think about ;-)
khordes
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Hmm.. you can't just add options to a config file like that. If there was a MODE setting, it would be covered in the documentation and examples.
You're looking for the IWOPTS= line - in your case, it should be:
IWOPTS="mode Ad-Hoc"
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That is definitely the command I was looking for. However, when I load my profile with the IWOPTS line everything comes up but the card stays in managed mode. If I manually set it to ad-hoc first, remove the IWOPTS line, and then bring it up, it fails and complains of a device or resource busy. My net-profile for the ad-hoc network is:
CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="Internet Connection Share"
INTERFACE=wlan0
IWOPTS="mode ad-hoc essid $ESSID channel 11"
IP="static"
IFOPTS="192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.100.255"
ESSID="khordes"
SECURITY=none
when i set it manually to adhoc before bringing it up I get:
:: ap up [BUSY] Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.
- Could not set wireless configuration [FAIL]
I have an Intel 4965 card. And as I mentioned earlier, if I set it up manually I have no problems. Thanks again.
khordes
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