Help with setting up Ad-Hoc wifi connection

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/8/06, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I just moved from FC4 to FC5. In FC4 I had a wifi connection setup well
> > between my FC4 (madwifi , dhcpd, squid) and my laptop running windows.
> This
> > time, after I installed the modules from Livna, system-config-network
> > recognized the wifi card as an ethernet card, coping over the contents
> of my
> > previous ifcfg (which I had backed up) fixed that, and showed things as
> > wireless in system-config-network. However, even after setting the
> > encryption key to what it was before (eg. PASSS) but things don't work.
> > Nothing is even seen when I do a `tcpdump -v -i wifi0`
> >
>
>
> Did you enter it with clear text or hex?


I entered it as clear text with system-config-network (as I did the first
time)

Temp remove wep on your AP and see if it works then, to see if its a key
> problem


It is an Ad-Hoc connection, no AP involved.

> Please advise.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
> >
>
> --
> Cheers
> Res
>
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