I'm a bit of a newbie to networking under linux(and I'm not that great under windows either
) but I'd like to set up my wireless LAN.
I have a proxy server on my host computer, running Windows XP. When I set up my LAN using iwconfig, I can get the little "Connected" icon in the system tray on the host, but ping doesn't work from either computer.
Host IP - 192.168.0.1
Client IP - 192.168.0.2
iwconfig output on Linux:
Code:
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linux"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 1A:02:51:01:4F:01
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm Sensitivity=0/0
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:10 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:89 Invalid misc:755 Missed beacon:0
wifi0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linux"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 1A:02:51:01:4F:01
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm Sensitivity=0/0
Retry limit:16 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:10 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:89 Invalid misc:755 Missed beacon:0
ifconfig -a output:
Code:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:61:B2:2A:EA
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1620 (1.5 Kb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x7e00
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:30:B0:67:27
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:18995 (18.5 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4300 (4.1 Kb) TX bytes:4300 (4.1 Kb)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0C-30-B0-67-27-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2312 Metric:1
RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:18995 (18.5 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd800
ipconfig under windows output:
Code:
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
(internet connection below)
I don't think the problem is with the actual wireless cards themselves... but I'm using two Cisco Aironet 350 wireless cards in Ad-Hoc mode.