Re: Ad-Hoc with Windows?

On Thursday,  2 May 2002 at 18:47:08 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 18:30, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> The real issue here is that you're using the Lucent "demo ad-hoc" mode
>> instead of the "ad-hoc" mode that the 802.11 standard claims is a
>> slang term for IBSS mode.  I've just (hopefully) completed a
>> protracted discussion with Wes Peters and Jerry Dunham (copied) on the
>> subject.
>>
>> Basically, IBSS mode (the IEEE 802.11 sanctioned peer-to-peer mode) is
>> the only one which works generally.  That's why we couldn't get any
>> connectivity with the Linux people on 27 December last year
>> (http://www.lemis.com/~grog/xmas-bbq-2001.html for those of you who
>> weren't there).  We were running in demo ad-hoc mode, while Chris and
>> Rusty were trying to connect in IBSS mode, so it couldn't work.  Since
>> then (at the LCA in February) we clarified the situation.  The
>> results:
>
> Right.. Knew I should have brought my AP :)

We don't need no steenking APs.

Greg
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