On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:19, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote: > Hi, > > Just writing to thank all of you that made the adm8211 driver in John > Linvilles wireless-2.6 development tree (not the dscape one, which I > will try also). > CC me then. :) Note that I only maintain the d80211 based adm8211 driver now, but that driver doesn't have adhoc support yet.
> One question, though. I'm trying to use it in ad-hoc mode. If there's no > other station with the same essid, it just keeps mentioning that > (besides the BCNTC and TSFTF messages) > > wlan0: No matching adhoc sta found. Creating IBSS 00:04:e2:3f:2a:70 CHAN=11 > > And the IBSS changes every time, which is about every 30 seconds. Is it > really supposed to change the IBSS each time? Probably not, but I never debugged adhoc mode enough. > The reason I ask is that my wife has a laptop with an Atheros chip in > it. If it is configured for ad-hoc it creates the IBSS and sticks with > it. So I now have two computers that have different behaviour in this > respect. That in itself is not, I guess, a problem. But it seems to me > that the random IBSS created by the adm8211 would result in two stations > not seeing eachother or taking longer than necessary to find eachother? > Have you checked? I think the bssid should stop changing once another station with the same ssid comes into range. > And one more question that I don't understand... the wlan0 interface > does not appear in snmp queries. Any idea about that? > Nope. -Michael Wu
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