setting the bit rate

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thursday 24 October 2002 17:41, you 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. 

My question was: how do tell if you are in official Ad-Hoc mode,
or in Ad-Hoc demo mode.
iwconfig just tells me my card is in Ad-Hoc mode.

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