On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:19:33PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 21:12 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on a Thinkpad T60p w/ Atheros wireless. > > madwifi or ath5k? Only ath5k is supported, because madwifi isn't in the > upstream kernel. NetworkManager only supports drivers that are shipped > in the official Linux kernel. Since we cannot fix binary drivers, and > out-of-tree drivers are of questionable interoperability and quality, > they are not supported.
I thought I was running madwifi, but according lsmod ath9k is loaded. > Is there a checkbox next to the wifi network you just created? The icon > will show your *primary* internet connection, i.e. the one you are > sharing. But the menu will also indicate the connection which is > sharing your primary connection. No check box -- a radio button, yes, if that's what you mean. > The sharing capability requires dnsmasq-base (on Ubuntu). Yes, installing that package was all it took. Very nice! To disable the ad-hoc network should I just select another wireless from the drop-down (or I guess I could just disable wireless all together). One thing that seems different since upgrading to 8.10 is that the wireless always connects even when on the wired LAN. IIRC, before nm-applet would stop the wireless when I connected to the wired LAN. But, my memory might be wrong about that. > If you > install that, when you "create new wireless network", it will create an > Ad-Hoc wifi connection and will start dnsmasq as a forwarding nameserver > and DHCP server on that adhoc network. Other computers that connect to > that adhoc network will then be able to get a DHCP address. I see. So my Thinkpad is preforming NAT (it's address is 192.168. and the devices that connect to it (like my iBook) is 10.42.44.10, > *however*, since you state that other computers cannot see the newly > created adhoc sharing network, this either indicates that you don't have > dnsmasq installed, or it indicates driver problems. I had to fix quite > a few upstream drivers along the way to get adhoc networking to work > correctly, and fix wpa_supplicant in a few cases. These changes are in > released kernels (2.6.27 and later) and also in the latest > wpa_supplicant releases (0.6.5 and later). Thanks very much for you effort. Very impressive how well these things work now. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
