[MLB-WIRELESS] iwconfig - Nearly there

[Matt Chipman]

Thanks to Ben and Matt (and whoever else was cheering for me) :)

I have the pci PLX PCMCIA adapter working under Debian Linux 2.4.18 kernel
and pinging a win95 laptop all with the $50.00 cards

WOO!

Was getting 2-3 ms ping from my letterbox!

-Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Boyd" <Matthew.C.Boyd at uts.edu.au>
To: "Matt Chipman" <mkchipman at optushome.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] iwconfig - Nearly there


> Matt
> Might be harping on about this but you do have the essid set the same on
both?
>
> can you email me the iwconfig output for both machines? I can compare it
> with mine and see if there's a problem. One thing you might want to check
> is your firewall setup on the linux box. I had issues with mine and had to
> turn it off initialy to get things working then change all the input
rules.
>
> Matt
>
> At 01:43 AM 26/04/02 +1000, you wrote:
> >Thanks guys,
> >
> >We are a little further along, i can now get my activity light to flash
by
> >doing a ping but when i do an ifconfig eth0 i get bytes transmitted but
not
> >recieved.
> >
> >The other thing i noticed is when the laptop (under win95) is in peer to
> >peer, the activity light flashes vigourously.  Under linux this does not
> >happen.  Should it?
> >
> >I am also using netstumbler on the laptop to try to see any traffic in
the
> >air but it cant see any either :(
> >
> >welcoming more suggestions ;-)
> >
> >BTW i have correct ipaddresses and subnet masks
> >
> >-Matt
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ben Grech" <vow at optushome.com.au>
> >To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:04 AM
> >Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] iwconfig - Nearly there
> >
> >
> > > Hi Matt,
> > >
> > > Good stuff getting it up and running. I can give you some tips if
you're
> > > running a Redhat-based distro, other distros are a little different.
> > >
> > > > This doesnt happed from bootup, i have to issue ifup eth0 for it to
get
> >to
> > > > this stage.
> > >
> > > Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and change the
> >line
> > > ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes.
> > >
> > > > The last hurdle is to get the laptop to ping the desktop which isnt
> > > > happening.
> > > >
> > > > what is a standard command line to setup the card underlinux in
ad-hoc
> > > mode
> > > > so i can talk to the laptop?
> > >
> > > "iwconfig eth0 mode ad-hoc" will change the card into ad-hoc mode.
Lots of
> > > other wireless settings can be changed this way as well, just do a
> > > iwconfig --help to find out how.
> > >
> > > Normally the wireless settings are stored in
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts,
> >but
> > > because you aren't using the PCMCIA drivers, I don't know how to set
these
> > > on boot. Look into the docs on the PLX drivers, it should be in there
> > > somewhere.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ben.
> > >
> > >
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> >
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