[Aironet] Ad-hoc mode doesn't work

[Nathan L. <lut...@li...>]

Hi,

I'm a new subscriber to this list, but I've been finding answers to
previous problems in the archives for a few months.  Now I have a problem
that I can't find an answer to.

In my apartment, I have an ad-hoc network set up with two WaveLAN cards.  
A Linux box with one card and a PCMCIA-to-PCI adapter acts as a router for
the wireless network, and both my Windows CE Workpad z50 and my friend's
Dell Win2k laptop work fine using the other WaveLAN card.

My friend has an Aironet 4800 card that we're trying to get to work on
this network.  We've configured it for ad-hoc mode (that is,
infrastructure: off) and set the SSID to be the same as the one the
WaveLAN cards are using.  However, this card and the WaveLAN cards don't
see each other's packets.

I'm fairly certain the Linux box is set up correctly, since other WaveLAN
cards can talk to it fine.  The Aironet card works on campus with the
access points, so it's functioning correctly.  (We've tried swapping in a
different Aironet card to no avail.)  We don't have encryption turned on,
so that's not an issue.

My guess was that the cards aren't talking on the same channel, but
somebody here said that the Aironet cards will search for the correct
channel in ad-hoc mode.  It is also possible that the WaveLAN cards are
not using an SSID (rather, are using a blank SSID) in ad-hoc mode, and the
Aironet cards *require* an SSID.  Does anybody have any
suggestions?  -Nathan

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