[MLB-WIRELESS] iwconfig - Nearly there

[Matt Chipman]

Matt

I had the enterasys card in the pci cradle in the linux box (saying it was
an ap) and two other of the same cards in 2 different laptops all pinging
each other.

<shrug>

-Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Boyd" <Matthew.C.Boyd at uts.edu.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] iwconfig - Nearly there


> At 11:06 PM 27/04/02 +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
> >Thanks Tim i have it working nicely now.  Strangely, the linux box turned
> >into an AP and i don't understand why.  Under iwconfig, the system is
using
> >managed mode and becomes unuseable if i turn on ad-hoc mode.  iwconfig
also
> >reports it as an AP including mac address and Netstumbler running on the
> >win98 laptop also reports 1 AP.  using another laptop (total 2 laptops
and 1
> >linux box) i can get them all to ping each other quite nicely.
>
> Ad-Hoc might have issues, the original enterasys firmware was running a
non
> conforming version of Ad-Hoc is what I've heard on the rumour mill. Which
> is a good reason to upgrade the enterasys cards.
>
> What cards are you using? The prisms do AP mode but the orinocos aren't
> supposed to be able to. I'd be interested to know if you had the hermes /
> enterasys cards going in AP.
>
> Matt
>
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