Re: [Madwifi-users] WPN311 in Ad-hoc

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 01:53 +0000, Steve Sansom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I checked the madwifi compatibility page, it
> notes that the Netgear WPN311 card works well in
> ad-hoc mode.
> 
> However when I issue the the command:
> 
> "iwconfig ath0 mode Ad-Hoc"
> 
> I get an invalid argument error in response to the
> set-mode command. I also cannot change the mode to
> auto.

Changing the mode with iwconfig is not supported.  It's a known issue:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/176

You should use wlanconfig or use the "autocreate" parameter, as
described in README.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin