On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Friday 09 August 2002 17:08, Jim Carter wrote:
> > You are using IBSS (official) Ad-Hoc mode, aren't you, rather than Ad-Hoc
> > Demo mode, which was a deprecated kludge to debug the hardware and make a
> > few initial sales.
>
> How does one tell ?
do "iwconfig eth1" (or whichever your wireless card comes out as). It will
say:
jimc ~ 2.4> iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"CFT" Nickname:"XENA"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
etc. etc.
The "mode" on the second line is what you are looking for. (There's no AP
right now, hence some funny values above.) To set it, do "iwconfig eth1
mode Ad-Hoc". Normally you would edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, find the
applicable stanza, and set MODE="Ad-Hoc" and any other items you need,
like ESSID and KEY and CHANNEL (ad-hoc only). Your Linux distro may (or
may not) have a configuration tool for this, e.g. in yast2 for SuSE Linux
starting I think in version 8.1.
Sorry for the late response -- there was something freaky in someone's mail
configuration (mine?) that caused several messages to get stuck since
August.
James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673
UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555
Email: jimc at math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Friday 09 August 2002 17:08, Jim Carter wrote:
> > You are using IBSS (official) Ad-Hoc mode, aren't you, rather than Ad-Hoc
> > Demo mode, which was a deprecated kludge to debug the hardware and make a
> > few initial sales.
>
> How does one tell ?
do "iwconfig eth1" (or whichever your wireless card comes out as). It will
say:
jimc ~ 2.4> iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"CFT" Nickname:"XENA"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:2Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
etc. etc.
The "mode" on the second line is what you are looking for. (There's no AP
right now, hence some funny values above.) To set it, do "iwconfig eth1
mode Ad-Hoc". Normally you would edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, find the
applicable stanza, and set MODE="Ad-Hoc" and any other items you need,
like ESSID and KEY and CHANNEL (ad-hoc only). Your Linux distro may (or
may not) have a configuration tool for this, e.g. in yast2 for SuSE Linux
starting I think in version 8.1.
Sorry for the late response -- there was something freaky in someone's mail
configuration (mine?) that caused several messages to get stuck since
August.
James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673
UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555
Email: jimc at math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)
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