From: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: p54: ad-hoc mode doesn't work
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:03:22 +0100
Cc: "Pavel Roskin" <proski@gnu.org>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> Most distributions are using >= 2.6.28 kernels with
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY which means the US is the default
> regulatory domain and its built statically into the kernel so the
> values are used CRDA does not have to be queried. If CRDA is present
> the regulatory domain is just updated with
> CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY.

Thank you for the explanation! Now I have disabled 
CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY and I have installed CRDA and iw. After 
setting the country I'm able to create the ad-hoc IBSS between the two PCs.

According to my opinion the error message posted in the original message of 
this thread might be misleading for the user: the network card doesn't enter 
in ad-hoc mode because the country for the CRDA is not set while the error 
says that the ad-hoc mode is not supported. What do you think about?

Regards,
Fabio