IBM card not working ...

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:43:34PM -0800, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:47:47PM +0000, Paul Millar wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> When my Linux server talks to my laptop booted into WinXP (only for
> testing, you can be sure :-)  with the Linux box in IBSS mode, the cards
> interoperate, implying that the WinXP default is real IBSS mode, and I
> would assume that Win2K would do the same thing.

I wouldn't assume that.  I think the default varies with the exact
driver version.

> I think I remember seeing a checkbox or Advanced Parameter for selecting
> Ad-Hoc Demo mode, but I can't be sure.

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