Hi list ! I now try for the first time ever to do some IBSS/ADHOC networking (so that I can implement this for libertas+cfg80211). I noticed several things: Documentation ------------- http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw doesn't have any example. Via google, I found http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw/replace-iwconfig, but this example is wrong, e.g. the frequency isn't specified. As I'm not yet an authoritative instance for IBSS questions, I won't fix those wiki pages --- yet. Scanning while in IBSS mode? ---------------------------- I finally settled to use these commands: dmesg -c >/dev/null iw dev wlan0 set type ibss ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.2 up iw --debug dev wlan0 ibss join ADHOC 2412 This seemed to work, but then I tried to look at the beacon. This was just not possible using "iw": iw dev wlan0 scan freq iw dev wlan0 scan freq 2412 didn't work. But, oh wonder, it worked via "iwlist eth1 scan". For me it looks like a but that I have to use a WEXT tool to check for ADHOC beacons while in IBSS mode. DMESG spamming -------------- At first, my dmesg looked quite reasonable: [22313.286690] phy0: device now idle [22313.292241] phy0: device no longer idle - in use [22313.292647] wlan0: Trigger new scan to find an IBSS to join [22316.000249] wlan0: Trigger new scan to find an IBSS to join [22320.000336] wlan0: Trigger new scan to find an IBSS to join [22322.000444] wlan0: Creating new IBSS network, BSSID 4e:9d:b6:88:b7:9b but then something started to spam it (Note that I did *NOT* yet operate another IBSS mode): [22352.000210] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) [22352.032050] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) [22352.068034] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) [22352.108035] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) [22352.140057] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) [22352.176038] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merg ... ad-infinitum -- http://www.holgerschurig.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
