Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-06 15:29:04 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Thanks for your help! I was finally able to get it to work with the following, which I put into a script: /etc/init.d/wicd stop ifconfig $IFACE down iwconfig $IFACE essid $ESSID mode Ad-Hoc channel $CHANNEL ifconfig $IFACE up

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-08 08:12:07 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:29:04 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. writes: 1. Why do I have to call iwconfig twice? Because wicd overwrites it somehow? No, wicd (the daemon) is stopped at that time. 2. Is wicd at fault in this case? If so,

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-07 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:29:04 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. writes: 1. Why do I have to call iwconfig twice? Because wicd overwrites it somehow? 2. Is wicd at fault in this case? If so, should I file a bug report? If you can do it manually and wicd cannot by default, then, yes, you should,

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-05 09:42:11 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast by barnacle on my phone, but the problem is reproducible on any adhoc network), wicd

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-06 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2011-08-05 09:42:11 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast by

ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi everyone, I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast by barnacle on my phone, but the problem is reproducible on any adhoc network), wicd appears to go through all of the steps to connect