[NCLUG] Setting up ad-hoc wireless?

[Michael Milligan]

Marcio Luis Teixeira wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I recently purchased another Lucent WaveLAN 801.11b card* and I want to set up 
> wireless networking in my home. The idea is that one card goes in my laptop, 
> the other goes in my firewall to act as an "access point." My question, is 
> there are good how-to's that address the specific topic of setting up 
> wireless networks in ad-hoc mode?

All you have to do is put both cards into Ad-Hoc mode and fix the 
channel/freq they talk on.  I.e.,

$ iwconfig mode ad-hoc channel 1 essid WarDriveMe

FYI, if you had purchased a Prism2-based card (e.g., OfficeMax here in FC 
sells Dlink 520 PCI cards for $50), there is a host-mode access point driver 
you can run to turn that card into, suprise, an Access Point.  I've been 
using it for a while now with an Intel 2011B PCI card with various visitors 
with various cards and it works great.  No messing around with ad-hoc mode.

http://hostap.epitest.fi/

Regards,
Mike

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