Orionoco-Wavelan unable to communicate

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:20:29PM -0800, Steve J wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using orinoco.c, orinoc_cs.c (version 8) driver,
> which is provided in pcmcia-cs-3.1.31 pkg. I am
> running my experiments in Ad-hoc mode.
> The two laptops are able to communicate when i use
> either two Lucent/wavelan(gold 11 Mbps) cards OR 
> two Lucent/Orinoco(11 Mbps) card. 
> 
> But when I use one Orinoco and one wavelan Card, the
> two laptops are unable to communicate.??

The wavelan card will have old firmware which does not support IBSS
ad-hoc mode, used by default on newer cards.

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