On 01/19/2010 02:54 PM, Greg Oliver wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ok! Consider that to reduce complexity, I stopped the firewall agent >> in the WinXPPro laptop that hosts the wifi ad-hoc network. So we can >> exclude the firewall :) >> By the way, has Ubuntu got a default firewall active? > > No, it doesn't, but I was unsuccessfully trying to connect to an adhoc > network the other day myself - using my phone to create the network. > An xp computer in the house and other phones were having no issue > connecting to it though. > > I didn't really care to troubleshoot it, so I just switched to using > bluetooth for the connection. Possibly related. I'll try it again > tonight just for grins.. Would you please stop top posting, _AND_ trim the quotes the way I just did!! -- 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
