Ath0 adhoc Dosen't Work

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Thu Dec 18 12:32:27 PST 2003


On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:01 pm, marcos wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have running the last current version of 5.1 and the last Atheros driver,
> I can make work the cards on Hostap, mode 11a, 11b, 11g, etc.. but I have
> no connection at all on adhoc, in any mode. someone knows is this a problem
> with the driver or is a special setup to make it work on adhoc mode to
> build a p2p connection? some times when I run "wicontrol -i ath0 -l" I can
> see the other station connected but is only for a sec. and gone again, same
> thing with both ends
>
> my settings are:
> ifconfig ath0 172.16.20.3 netmask 255.255.255.0  ssid atheros media
> autoselect mode 11b mediaopt adhoc

Known problem.  Sorry, but it appears it's a problem in the atheros h/w setup 
for adhoc mode and I have no time now to work on it.

	Sam



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