[Gllug] Wireless cards see each other, but I can't get them toping

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

Thanks Formi
> First, you forgot to mention the cards you are talking about?
> If any of them is a 802.11g, good luck!

> The sequence in which the configuration commands are issued it's
> important.

They're both 802.11b

One's a Sitecom WL-011 PCMCIA card, uses the ATMEL pcmf502r driver
the PCI one is built into an IBM R30 Thinkpad, and uses orinoco_pci

First I set the essid and mode of the orinoco one:
iwconfig eth0 essid simple mode ad-hoc channel 1

then I insert the PCMCIA card and look in syslog, to see an entry in the BSS list with the channel and essid I just set.

then I configure the PCMCIA card (which starts out in managed mode)
iwconfig eth0 essid simple mode ad-hoc

It's really encouraging that the PCMCIA card thinks it's joined a network, less encouraging that the orinoco one keeps mum. I'm going to try recompiling the driver to make it more verbose.

regards,
Tom



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