[Gllug] Wireless networking..

Kim Hawtin kim at aldigital.co.uk
Mon Feb 11 15:36:17 UTC 2002


> > > Cards in managed mode will happily connect in managed mode to an IBSS
> > > ad-hco node.
> > 
> > if both your systems run linux/*bsd then running in ad-hoc mode is
> > probably the prefered option. managed mode has nasty gotchas...
> 
> Sure, but if your linux/*bsd box is in IBSS mode a Windows PC can
> happily talk in peer-to-peer or managed mode IIRC (been a while since
> I've tested with Windows)

WindowsXX will work in ad-hoc mode, talking to unix boxes in ad-hoc
mode. I have not tested it a lot, as i have not had much access to a 
Windows machine. I have not tested managed-mode.

yours,

Kim
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