creation & activation of ad-hoc network

kamala · 02-22-2011, 02:59 AM

Hi,

I am using D-Link wireless dongle on my fedora 11 machine.with commands i want to create and activate(up) an ad-hoc network. please help me.
Thanks in advance.

corp769 · 02-22-2011, 03:35 AM

If you are using network manager, you can click on the network manager icon in the system tray, and then click on "create new wireless network"

As far as using commands, you can do the following:

Code:

sudo service NetworkManager stop
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid my_essid
sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel 6
sudo iwconfig wlan0 10.0.0.2 up

kamala · 02-22-2011, 11:38 PM

Thank you for your reply.

After stopping the network service, and setting the mode to ad-hoc giving this error,

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.

corp769 · 02-22-2011, 11:59 PM

Code:

service NetworkManager stop
ifconfig ra0 down
ifconfig ra0 up
iwconfig ra0 mode Ad-Hoc
iwconfig ra0 essid my_essid
iwconfig ra0 channel 6
iwconfig ra0 10.0.0.2 up

I added the ifconfig down just to be sure it is fully down.

kamala · 02-24-2011, 02:18 AM

Thank you very much for your quick reply,

its giving the below error
iwconfig: unknown command "10.0.0.2"

and its not creating any network with the essid and the network manager is not up.

corp769 · 02-24-2011, 12:08 PM

My bad, try it this way:

Code:

ifconfig ra0 down
ifconfig ra0 up
ifconfig ra0 192.168.111.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
iwconfig ra0 mode Ad-Hoc
iwconfig ra0 channel auto
iwconfig ra0 essid my_essid