Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:51873 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758366Ab0GTMFY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:05:24 -0400 Received: by vws14 with SMTP id 14so163272vws.19 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:05:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201007201350.48923.holgerschurig@gmail.com> References: <201007201350.48923.holgerschurig@gmail.com> From: Jonathan Guerin Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:05:02 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath5k Ad Hoc Association To: Holger Schurig Cc: Bob Copeland , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I understand that it's not the way I'm supposed to do it. What I'm saying is that it's not working, whereas the other way is! :( I will play around some more with it tomorrow. It's still baffling as to why the driver is not beaconing until there is another node tho... -- Jonathan Guerin On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Holger Schurig wrote: >> iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type adhoc >> iw wlan0 set channel 36 >> iwconfig wlan0 channel 36 >> iwconfig wlan0 essid txctest > > I can't think of ANY reason why you do that. Use "iw", not "iwconfig". > > All the last three commands should be replaced with one single "iw dev wlan0 > ibss join myibss XXXX", where XXXX is the frequency for channel 36. If in > doubt what this is, just do "iw list" and you'll see it. >