[Wylug-help] peer to peer wifi programming

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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:

> PC1:
> 
> /sbin/ifdown eth1
> /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid off channel 0 mode ad-hoc
> /sbin/ifup eth1
> 
> PC2:
> /sbin/ifdown eth1
> /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid off channel 0 mode ad-hoc
> /sbin/ifup eth1

Set both machines with the same ESSID, you're going to get alsorts of 
problems otherwise.

I don't know what is meant by "channel 0" - suspect it is driver specific. 
Like ESSID, set this on both machines to the same thing, ie. a value 
between 1 and 13.