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SCUD
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 Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:55 am Post subject: Wireless Ad-Hoc Network using ipw2200 |
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Hi Guys,
I'm hoping someone out there can help with this problem. I've read a number of threads including the Gentoo-Wiki guide:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup
And many of UberLord's helpful and useful posts, such as:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-225871-highlight-wireless+uberlord.html
But I haven't had very much success at all. I'm using an ASUS M6000R Laptop with an Intel 2200BG Wireless network card. I've successfully emerged and loaded the ipw2200 module and I have the necessary kernel compenents compiled (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC & CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_586) using a 2.6.11 kernel.
I tried using wpa_supplicant with limited results and am now trying to use iwconfig to run a network ad-hoc between either windows xp or another gentoo linux machine.
I have kwirelessmonitor running and can see 5 green bars when people are connected to my ESSID. They can connect fine and iwconfig even shows packets being received etc. but whenever we try and ping we get:
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PING 192.168.0.50 (192.168.0.50) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.68.0.51 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
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Where 192.168.0.51 is the IP of my machine and 192.168.0.50 is the machine that is connected to me but unable to ping. Broadcast and Netmask etc. have all been specified in the conf.d/net and ifconfig all looks good but I am baffled why we can't ping. Anyone got any ideas?
I'm not on the laptop at the moment so I can't paste any config files but I will do this later on. Let me know anything your interested in looking at ie /conf.d/net and conf.d/wireless, iwconfig and ifconfig output etc.
Any help appreciated at this stage, very frustrated with my wireless under gentoo  |
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Sarky1
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To add to this, we are now able to get connection to accesspoints. Pickup IP addresses off a dhcp server and use the network fine.
How ever the same problem exists when we are using Ad-Hoc
From what I can tell all we set is " iwconfig ath1 mode ad-hoc" after this and setting the normal essid and txpower info. We have our ip address specified and have tryed with a dhcp server but still get no data flow. Maybe we need to have a master or ????
The reason this is so strange is that we can connected and get signal strength reading from each other how ever NO DATA FLOW.
If any one has any ideas please just throw them into the works we will look into any thing to get this working. Its a form of entertainment at work. Cmon you all know how it works 
P.S Spelling may be a bit off had a few tonight.... My bad |
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SCUD
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:36 am Post subject: |
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And just a bit more info... can ping broadcast address fine and after doing we can see from arp that the correct IPs and associated MAC addresses are all present in the arp table on the correct interface...
So why no ping? Any ideas anyone? |
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