I understand that it's not the way I'm supposed to do it. What I'm saying is that it's not working, whereas the other way is! :( I will play around some more with it tomorrow. It's still baffling as to why the driver is not beaconing until there is another node tho... -- Jonathan Guerin On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type adhoc >> iw wlan0 set channel 36 >> iwconfig wlan0 channel 36 >> iwconfig wlan0 essid txctest > > I can't think of ANY reason why you do that. Use "iw", not "iwconfig". > > All the last three commands should be replaced with one single "iw dev wlan0 > ibss join myibss XXXX", where XXXX is the frequency for channel 36. If in > doubt what this is, just do "iw list" and you'll see it. > -- 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