[MLB-WIRELESS] iwconfig - Nearly there

[Matt Chipman]

Thanks guys,

We are a little further along, i can now get my activity light to flash by
doing a ping but when i do an ifconfig eth0 i get bytes transmitted but not
recieved.

The other thing i noticed is when the laptop (under win95) is in peer to
peer, the activity light flashes vigourously.  Under linux this does not
happen.  Should it?

I am also using netstumbler on the laptop to try to see any traffic in the
air but it cant see any either :(

welcoming more suggestions ;-)

BTW i have correct ipaddresses and subnet masks

-Matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Grech" <vow at optushome.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] iwconfig - Nearly there


> Hi Matt,
>
> Good stuff getting it up and running. I can give you some tips if you're
> running a Redhat-based distro, other distros are a little different.
>
> > This doesnt happed from bootup, i have to issue ifup eth0 for it to get
to
> > this stage.
>
> Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and change the
line
> ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes.
>
> > The last hurdle is to get the laptop to ping the desktop which isnt
> > happening.
> >
> > what is a standard command line to setup the card underlinux in ad-hoc
> mode
> > so i can talk to the laptop?
>
> "iwconfig eth0 mode ad-hoc" will change the card into ad-hoc mode. Lots of
> other wireless settings can be changed this way as well, just do a
> iwconfig --help to find out how.
>
> Normally the wireless settings are stored in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts,
but
> because you aren't using the PCMCIA drivers, I don't know how to set these
> on boot. Look into the docs on the PLX drivers, it should be in there
> somewhere.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>
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