On Friday 29 July 2005 10:13 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > John Wilson wrote: > > On July 29, 2005 12:27 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>When you are using a wireless router, it is the router, and not the > >>wireless card that controlls the chanel used. If you could manage to > >>change the chanel on the card, it would no longer be able to talk to the > >>router. The only time you can change the chanel on the wireless card is > >>when you are using the ad-hoc mode and talking to another wireless card. > >>In that case, you need both cards to use the same chanel. > >> > >>Mikkel > > > > So what you're saying is that the statement in the Linksys leaflet that > > passes for docs that "all devices in your wireless network must broadcast > > on the same channel in order to function properly" can be ignored when > > setting the channel on the modem? > > > > If that's the case why the heck don't they just say that! :-) > > > > ttfn > > > > John > > They do have to broadcast on the same chanel. It is just that when you > are using the managed mode, that the router determins the channel. I > have set up many wireless systems, and when using the managed mode, the > only place you set the channel is on the wireless router. The card gets > set when it does the handshake with the router. For that matter, the > Windows drivers do not let you set the channel when using the managed > mode. When you use the ad-hoc mode, you need to specify the chanel, > because you do not have something like the wireless router to "manage" > the connections. But I don't know of any wireless routers that work in > the ad-hoc mode. There may be some, but I don't know why you would want > to use the ad-hoc mode with a wireless router in the system. > > The thing you have to remember is that there are two different ways to > set up a wireless network. The managed mode has one device in controll, > and everyone talks to it. In the ad-hoc mode, every device talks to > every other device. This works well if you have a bunch of computers in > a local network, each with a static IP address. It does not work well > when you want to use DHCP, and have a gateway to the Internet. > > Mikkel That explains what adhoc is , thanks, I never tried it but some of my fiddling to get my system to work may have gotten me confused about the channel number. I added that, amoung other bits, on advice from someone on mandriva forum. And by the time I was done adding this and deleting that I was never really sure what made it work correctly. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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