wireless lan configuration
Hello.
I have some trouble making my lan work. I have a desktop linux pc on which I installed a dlink wireless card using the RaLink driver. I have a laptop windows pc with a built-in wireless card. I would like the two PCs to talk to each other. On linux, the ralink module is loaded, and the card is configured as follows: Code:
ra0 RT61 Wireless ESSID:"" There is no firewall in between. Is there anything missing/wrong with the configuration? Is there any special config I should change on windows? Could any other wireless lan nearby cause any conflict? |
Hi
Please could you tell me the version of GNU/Linux your are running (GNU/Debian, RedHat ES, Mandriva) As you can see you haven't got an essid set correctly so you cannot connect to an adhoc WAN. You must set your essid either on the win32 host. I had the same conf at home and it works corretly (with some bug somstimes ;) ) You can set your essid with the iwconfig tools. And if you are running a Debian, you can set the wireless link to comes up with your laptop (/etc/network/interface). Cheers. |
Thanks for the reply. :)
I can't figure out how to deal with the essid, though... I thought it could be any random sequence of up to 32 alphanumerical characters, but there's something I don't get... I mean, for instance: Code:
debian:~# iwconfig ra0 mode ad-hoc essid "GuldoNet01" p.s.: I have a debian testing on linux 2.6.17 |
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