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Padawan.AVT 11-13-2008 03:45 AM

Cannot connect to ad-hoc WiFi
 
I'm trying to set-up wireless network between my Gentoo PC and Windows XP laptop

I've succeeded to install drivers, start wlan0 NIC, iwlist wlan0 scanning shows surrounding networks. Gentoo PC is set to be ad-hoc master, my laptop able to find it's network but cannot connect to it.
I tried to use both static and DHCP ip addresses but neither worked.


Im using the following:

wireless-tools
wpa_supplicant
Drivers taken from b43-fwcutter

Code:

# lspci -vnn
01:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:100f]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at fddfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

A piece of /etc/conf.d/net describing my wlan0:

Code:

modules=( "iwconfig" )

key_FALCON1="[1] s:************* key [1] enc open"
preferred_aps=( "FALCON1" )

adhoc_essid_wlan0="Falcon"

mode_wlan0="ad-hoc"

config_wlan0=("192.168.150.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.150.255")

# Set the ESSID of the interface
# In managed mode, this forces the interface to try and connect to the
# specified ESSID and nothing else
essid_wlan0="Falcon"

# We use channel 3 if you don't specify one
channel_wlan0="8"

Any ideas?

bapigoo9 12-02-2008 02:26 AM

What wireless hardware are you using to connect the two computers together with this ad hoc WiFi?
Quote:

Broadcom Corporation BCM4318
is on the Linux PC? What about the Windows XP laptop?

Padawan.AVT 05-14-2009 12:56 PM

This is on Linux PC.
On my Windows XP laptop I have Atheros 5006X


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