IBSS-adhoc interoperability is good!

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:35:58AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:08:26PM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > I'm serious. I have set in my pcmcia/wireless.opts (iirc) file I set ESSID
> > to "wireless" yet without changing any settings I can see and be seen by
> > machines with the ESSID "rainmaker" (a powerbook, win98 laptop and a
> > 486
> 
> Ok, but do the machines still show different essids after they've
> talked?

Well, on my laptop iwconfig definitly still shows "wireless". I'm assuming
here that iwconfig reads the actual value from the card and not what it was
last set to.

> > linux one). iwconfig shows the essid as "wireless". In fact, the 486 I don't
> > think sets it's ESSID at all (can't find a wireless-tools compiled for
> > slink).
> 
> ...and if you're not setting it, it will be "auto" and look for the
> essid of other nearby machines.

Ok, so that would explain why the 486 works. Actually, without iwconfig I
can't even set the 486 to ad-hoc mode or set the frequency. The default IIRC
is managed mode so it's suprising it works at all (though maybe wvlan_cs is
different, never used it before). No, I have not done anything with module
options either, cardmgr is defaulting to insmod :(.

When I get home tonight I will see if I can reproduce the behaviour between
my laptop & desktop.

BTW, have you considered adding iwconfig mode ad-hoc-ibss and iwconfig mode
ad-hoc-demo? And have the iwconfig output display which it is using? I was
looking at adding it but there doesn't seem to be a consistant interface
between cards.

I also have a small patch that adds /etc/ethers support to iwspy.
Interested?

HTH,
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