On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:25 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to setup a temporary ad-hoc wireless connection between my > firewall (CentOS5) and my laptop. (F9, NM disabled) > The wireless connection will sit on the "red" side of the firewall (and > will be disabled most of the time), so passphrase security should be OK. > (At least for now) > > As far as I could gather (By using google), I should issue > (more-or-less) the same commands on both ends. > E.g.: > > FW: (rt61) > $ ifconfig ra0 192.168.200.1 up > $ iwconfig ra0 channel 11 rate 11M key XXXXXXXXXX essid name > > Notebook: (Intel chipset) > $ ifconfig wlan0 192.168.200.2 up > $ iwconfig wlan0 channel 11 rate 11M key XXXXXXXXXX essid name > > Ping doesn't work; ARP doesn't resolve IPs. > What am I doing wrong? > > - Gilboa > > P.S. AFAIK the rt61 driver doesn't support Master mode, so I cannot > setup an AP and I rather not use a permanent wireless AP. Problem seems to be a known issue with iwl4965 and the latest Fedora 8/9 kernels. Please ignore. - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
