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archman-cro

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Registered: 2010-04-04

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[Solved] netcfg and ad-hoc for Playstation Portable

I've been trying to connect the PC with Playstation Portable by placing this in the new netcfg profile:

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE="wlan0"
SECURITY="none"
ESSID="PSP_AUCES00465_L_"
KEY=""
IP="dhcp"
PRE_UP="ifconfig wlan0 down; iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc"

It starts the interface (wlan0), then stops it and starts again (all done in 0.5 s). Then it echoes: 'ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Invalid argument', and when it times out it goes: 'WPA Authentication/Association Failed'.
I've also tried connecting with:

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid <essid>
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0

...but it times out.

Any ideas or thoughts on this one?

I have used networkmanager + nm-applet for this when I was on a previous distro, and it had that ipv4 tab which had a "Link-Only" option in it. Any equivalent to that option?

Last edited by archman-cro (2010-07-10 18:13:32)

archman-cro

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Re: [Solved] netcfg and ad-hoc for Playstation Portable

I have installed nm-applet + other deps, and it's working good for ad-hoc. Everything works correctly. But is there any way I can connect without it (cause I hate nm-applet and gnome deps...)?

archman-cro

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Re: [Solved] netcfg and ad-hoc for Playstation Portable

I have solved this by applying 'ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.1' after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'. Done and working.