On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Rony wrote:
> Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
>
> >
> >Both PCs are running Kubuntu Feisty. There is no firewall running on
> >either machine while I am trying this stuff.
> >
> >Task 1 : to connect both PCs so that they can atleast ping each other.
> >This is what I get.
> >
>
> For wireless link between 2 machines without an access point, both
> wireless devices need to run in Ad-Hoc mode, use the same ESSID, and the
> same channel.
>
> In terminal: sudo iwconfig device mode Ad-Hoc essid net_name channel
> ..... Device is your device name.
> Look up man iwconfig.
>
> Then run 'sudo iwlist device scanning' to scan for neighbouring devices.
Okay did that. I had to get the madwifi-tools to set the mode to adhoc
on ath0.
but iwlist scan shows: No scan results.
now what ?
If it's of any use, iwlist wifi0 channel always shows channel 3, whereas
iwlist ath0 channel shows a different channel everytime.
thanks,
Sharukh.
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