I am happy to provide such data. Tell me what config you want me to put in place and I'll set up a capture. Cheers, -- Jonathan Guerin On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Derek Smithies <derek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Bob Copeland wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Jonathan Guerin <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to get my wireless nodes to associate in ad hoc mode. > > [[[snipped]]] >> >> $ su >> # modprobe -r ath5k >> # modprobe ath5k >> # iw dev wlan0 set type ibss >> # ifconfig wlan0 192.168.10.1 up >> # iw dev wlan0 ibss join myibss 2462 >> >> Then on the other machine (Vista) I just located 'myibss' (so beacons >> are working) and selected it, then successfully pinged 192.168.10.1. > > Wrong. > If the other machine located your node, then one of the four statements is > true: > a)beacons are working > b)probes are working - which means a scan is happening. > c)beacons and probes are working > d)beacons and probes are not working. The vista machine saw a data > packet, and sent a probe request, which your machine answered. > >>>>>>>>> > > My colleague here did some work with a slightly older kernel. > > He found that the association process worked sometimes - not always. > There was a time dependency - both nodes have to go through this at the same > time. > > Further - scans - it seems that nodes have to scan to find things. Old > information in the mac80211 has to be expired and removed. > > A scan should not be necessary - if both ends are put on channel 2462- a > scan should not be required - there is no channel changing. Yet - my > colleague noted a scan helped nodes to associate. > > I would say this::: > I cannot deduce what is happening from the initial posters report. I need a > packet dump of the beacons/probes and all the other packets on the air. > > Cheers, > Derek. > -- > Derek Smithies Ph.D. > IndraNet Technologies Ltd. > ph +64 3 365 6485 > Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ > > "How did you make it work??" > "Oh, the usual, get everything right". > -- 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
