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I recentely put arch linux on my netbook. I got the wireless working (or so I thought), but I'm having trouble connecting to an ad-hoc network. I have my android phone which is rooted and shares its 3G connection by creating an ad-hoc network. I have verified that this works fine with an iPod. It was able to connect and access the internet.
I wanted to get my arch netbook to connect to the same network but it's giving me some trouble. I use wicd as my network manager. I can connect to my wireless router just fine, and my droid's SSID shows up but when I connect to it, it will wait about 30 seconds and say it could not get an IP. If I bypass wicd and connect via iwconfig, dhcpcd times out before getting an IP as well.
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yeah I use wireless tether as well. It's an issue with wicd. do an iwlist scan I found that my phone was broadcasting under my changed settings and under the default. Connect to the one on channel 6 named AndroidTether not whatever custom settings you put. Then dhcpcd should work. The issue with wicd as far as i could find from google was that it doesn't change hte mode to ad-hoc properly
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 essid "AndroidTether" channel 6 mode ad-hoc
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0
Usually I split up the essid channel and mode so notsure if you can do that in one line or not but the rest of it should work.
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That gives the same result as before. It seemingly works fine until I broadcast for an IP then it just times out.
I don't think this is an issue with my phone. The app says it has a DHCP server and like I said, I have an ipod connecting to it without issue.
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try increasing the dhcpcd timeout by dhcpcd -t 120, maybe this helps, the command posted by celthunder are exactly the same ones i use, so they should work!
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https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22057
Does that apply?
Same problem here, so I guess wicd in extra isn't a working version yet. My power went off so I figured I could use my Droid's ad-hoc stuff, I was mistaken.
I started bringing it up working with the cmd_line when my power came back on and found this problem online.
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