On Friday 21 July 2006 17:00, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > I am trying to configure my Wireless LAN in such a way that it can > route packets from other nodes to a access points, so that nodes > outside the reach of the access point can route their packets through > my card. I understand that I need to put my card into Ad-hoc mode for > this to work. > > However, > # iwconfig eth1 mode Ad-Hoc > # service network restart > fails to look up IP information for my card. DHCP is configured in > the network. I have tried to put the card in Auto and Repeater mode > too through iwconfig, with the same results. Funnily the > configuration file at /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 > still showed the mode as Managed even when I had set it to Repeater. > Manually changing the setting did not yield anything fruitful. > > I am using Fedora Core 5, 2.6.16 kernel, and my card only supports > 802.11b not 802.11g. > > Any idea?
Ok...did you check whether your wifi card is binding with the other node? Unless it binds, it wont get an IP address. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
