I have a desktop containing a PCI to PCMCIA card with an Orinoco Gold and a laptop using a Zoomair prism2-based wlan card. I know the Zoomair works fine as I have successfully used it to connect to various wireless networks. I have not had the same experience with the Orinoco card, however.
I am trying to get a simple ad-hoc connection working between my desktop and my laptop. I have both cards set to channel 6, ad-hoc mode, and set to an ESSID of "Homegate". I set the IP address of the laptop wlan0 to 10.0.0.2 and the desktop eth0 (the orinoco) to 10.0.0.1. These are the basic settings from which I have tried to work from to get a successful communication between the two systems. No worky. Nothing I have tried has worked to get these systems to communicate, let alone see each other. I thought I was going to succeed when I setup a dhcp server on my laptop listening through the wlan0 and setup the desktop eth0 to use dhcp. When I try an "ifup eth0" the desktop tries to get an address but fails. Meanwhile, my laptop produces log messages indicating that at least an attempt at a request for an address was made: Jun 3 13:35:57 localhost dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:02:2d:3c:26:71 via wlan0 Jun 3 13:35:57 localhost dhcpd: icmp_echorequest 10.0.0.255: Permission denied Jun 3 13:35:58 localhost dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.0.0.255 to 00:02:2d:3c:26:71 via wlan0 Now the MAC address above is from the Orinoco so I feel closer but still... Anyone have any pointers or words of wisdom? praedor
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