Problem with frequences

[Martin Pot]

Patrick Cole wrote:
> Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 02:17:48PM -0300, Gustavo Junior Alves wrote:
>
>> I have 14 sites linked by orinoco cards running on linux. Some times,
>> whe some machine is rebooted, all network is "splited" by 2 or 3
>> networks. An example:
>>
>> Site A, B, C, D are conected. When some machine is rebooted, A only
>> can call B and C only call D.
>>
>> Someone have a simmilar problem? What's wrong?
>>
>> PS: I don't have any AP and the frequences are correctly set, but the
>> card appears does not respect this settings.
>
> If they are all running in Ad-hoc mode, then that is the reason they
> will not respect your frequency setting. Ad-hoc is designed to pick
> its own frequency, not the one you give it.

I think you've confused ad-hoc and managed mode.

With ad-hoc mode, the frequency needs to be specified, while in managed
mode, the frequency is automatically handled by the wireless card.

Cheers,
Martin.