IBM card not working ...

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:47:47PM +0000, Paul Millar wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, David Gibson wrote:
> > That manfid is unfortunately used by most of the manufacturers making
> > cards using the Prism2 chipset (which includes the IBM card).
> 
> I'm confused. The webpage (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/
> Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html#WavelanIEEE) has the IBM card as a
> WavelanIEEE/Orinoco/... clone.

It is.  Which is based on the Prism 2 chipset, with a firmware by
Lucent which is similar too but not the same as Intersil's firmware.

> > > Yet another problem is ad-hoc mode doesn't work. The card sits quietly
> > > without transmitting anything and doesn't detect another laptop in range.
> > 
> > Are you using the same ad-hoc mode - there is both IBSS (802.11
> > standard) ad-hoc mode (the default) and demo (Lucent proprietary)
> > ad-hoc mode which are not interoperable.  If the other stations are
> > using demo ad-hoc mode, use the command "iwpriv ethXX set_port3 1" to
> > activate this mode.
> 
> The other machine was running Windows 2000. It didn't say, but I suspect 
> it was running in IBSS ad-hoc as per the standard ... I can check this. I 
> hadn't altered the Linux driver, so I guess it should have been in IBSS 
> mode too.

I wouldn't count on the Windows 2000 machine being in IBSS mode.

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