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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:12:40 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4318 AirForceOne issue - Ubuntu 9.10 on Acer Aspire
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On 01/19/2010 02:54 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Giuseppe Fontana <gfontana13@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok! Consider that to reduce complexity, I stopped the firewall agent
>> in the WinXPPro laptop that hosts the wifi ad-hoc network. So we can
>> exclude the firewall :)
>> By the way, has Ubuntu got a default firewall active?
> 
> No, it doesn't, but I was unsuccessfully trying to connect to an adhoc
> network the other day myself - using my phone to create the network.
> An xp computer in the house and other phones were having no issue
> connecting to it though.
> 
> I didn't really care to troubleshoot it, so I just switched to using
> bluetooth for the connection.  Possibly related.  I'll try it again
> tonight just for grins..

Would you please stop top posting, _AND_ trim the quotes the way I just did!!