I finally went ahead and upgraded from MDK 8.2 to MDK 9.0 on my laptop (IBM Stinkpad 1412, Celeron). It installed just fine and everything is working OK except for wireless.
I have 2 devices to play with: an Orinoco Gold and a Zoomair. Under 8.2 I had the Zoomair (prism2) working just fine. Under 9.0 I find it impossible to build the hostap driver and the wlan-ng driver just doesn't work at all - it doesn't appear to understand any wireless extension commands so I cannot set anything on the card. Under 9.0, the Orinoco gold card is accepted OK and the wvlan_cs module loads. I am able to set channel, mode, etc, with iwconfig. Problem is, even though I set the parameters to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid and "iwconfig eth0" shows all the settings as what they should be, I get no communication with my desktop which has and has had for a long time a fully working WUSB11 set to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid. They match in all necessary settings yet I am unable to ping or communicate between systems at all. Any ideas? Any suggestions? I have tried rebuilding wlan-ng drivers, altering the wireless.opts file, network.opts file, manually changing settings, all to no avail. I even reset my desktop wusb11. Nothing. Ad-hoc, same channel, same essid and no communication. praedor
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