[Ilugc] help in ad-hoc networks setting up
- From: mohan43u@xxxxxxxxx (MohanR)
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:37:33 +0530
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 13:10 +0530, Arun p das wrote:
I tried the following command
* iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
You need to mention name and channel, I use the following command,
# iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid "dark" channel 1
Here you see 'eth1' instead of 'wlan0' because I use broadcom's
proprietary driver called 'broadcom-sta' instead of 'b43' family. This
will create an access point called "dark" (set a good name please). If
no error occurs, then I need to connect to this access-point with the
same command I used to create the ad-hoc network, like below,
# iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid "dark" channel 1
If everything is ok, then I will see essid as "dark" in iwconfig output,
# iwconfig
eth1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"Dark"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: BE:33:20:D7:30:A4
Tx-Power=200 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
#
At this point, I'm connected at link-level, I need to configure this
eth1 in tcp-level to properly use the device, like below
# ifconfig eth1 up
# ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
On another laptop which I want to connect, I need to do the following,
to establish peer-to-peer connection
# iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid "Dark" channel 1
# ifconfig wlan0 up
# ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.0
Thats it, both laptops can talk to each other. One point is, I don't use
any WAP encription here. So, the ad-hoc network which I established is
free to all, anyone can connect without password.
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