Re: managed mode works but not the ad-hoc mode !

Jean-Luc Touchevier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Normally it does :
"NDIS doesn't support Master/Repeater/Monitor modes. The only modes 
supported are Ad-Hoc and Managed."
cf. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/FAQ

keter wrote:

>i dont think ndiswrapper does ad-hoc
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>>Hello all,
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>>I have two labtops HP Omnibook XE2 with a Wireless PCMCIA Card Trendnet 
>>TEW-421PC (configured with ndiswrapper).
>>Both of them run under a Mandriva Linux LE 2005.
>>I would like these two labtops to communicate in ad-hoc.
>>Here is my problem : the managed mode works whithout problem but not the 
>>ad-hoc mode !
>>In ad-hoc mode the wireless card is power on (the first light is on) but 
>>don't send any packets (the second light blinks never) !
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>>However the interface wlan0 seems to be correctly configured :
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>>    iwconfig
>>    lo no wireless extensions.
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>>    wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"aron" Nickname:"guillaume"
>>    Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:5.26GHz Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>    Bit Rate=0 kb/s        Tx-Power:10 dBm    Sensitivity=0/3
>>    RTS thr=2347 B        Fragment thr=2312 B
>>    Encryption key:88ED-D
>>    B0-FDE4-C95D-670B-B890-CD    Security mode:restricted
>>    Power Management:off
>>    Link quality:100    Signal level:0    Noise level:0
>>    Rx invalid nwid:0    Rx invalid crypt:0    Rx invalid frag:0
>>    Tx excessive retries:0    Invalid misc:0    Missed beacon:0
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>>    site0    no wireless extensions.
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>>A ping request results in "Destination Host unreachable" and a "iwlist 
>>wlan0 scan" lists only my cell.
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>>I don't understand. Any ideas ?
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>>Thank you very much
>>jl
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