No sigal info with orinoco_cs in ad-hoc mode?

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:39:18PM +0200, Erno Kuusela wrote:
> hello,
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> | The overall statistics are meaningless for an ad-hoc network, because
> | signal levels vary per host.  To get the iwspy stats you'll need to
> | use the iwspy tool, and in any case the stats won't be updated until
> | you actually receive a packet from the host in question.
> 
> thanks. i have it working now with 2 ipaqs seeing each other. i guess i
> had the base station address wrong last time when i tried to add it
> with iwspy.
> 
> i wonder if there is any way find out the ip address that
> corresopnds to a given wlan hardware address?

If you've send any packets to the station recently, it should show up
in the output or "arp -a".

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