On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Rony wrote:
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
Both PCs are running Kubuntu Feisty. There is no firewall running on either machine while I am trying this stuff.
Task 1 : to connect both PCs so that they can atleast ping each other. This is what I get.
For wireless link between 2 machines without an access point, both wireless devices need to run in Ad-Hoc mode, use the same ESSID, and the same channel.
In terminal: sudo iwconfig device mode Ad-Hoc essid net_name channel ..... Device is your device name. Look up man iwconfig.
Then run 'sudo iwlist device scanning' to scan for neighbouring devices.
Okay did that. I had to get the madwifi-tools to set the mode to adhoc on ath0.
but iwlist scan shows: No scan results.
now what ?
If it's of any use, iwlist wifi0 channel always shows channel 3, whereas iwlist ath0 channel shows a different channel everytime.
thanks,
Sharukh.