On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? >> I forgot about this. I just tried joining an adhoc network here, and it will not let me join at all Giuseppe. wpa_supplicant just tells me "failed to set operating mode".. I'm running wireless-compat though, so my ubuntu that is not completely using iw yet may just not work in this case.. Like I said, it is no big deal to me though. Sorry I can't help further. -Greg -- 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
