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Re: [LUG] wireless frustration

 

Neil Williams wrote:
> 
> A wireless card needs an access point - end of story.

Nah

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1451421

If both PCs are in ad-hoc mode with the same ESSID, the two computers
should just form a network (think ethernet layer).

Alexis may need to statically allocate IP addresses to both ends to
create the IP layer.

In the Microsoft/Apple world zeroconf will allocate addresses from
169.254/16 range automatically, and Linux will do this if you install
the zeroconf packages for your distro.

But dynamic IP addresses only work sensibly with network protocols that
advertise services dynamically, which some of the  Microsoft protocols
do, but which may need some configuration (in which case you might as
well allocate addresses statically).

I use to run Wireless in my own house using ad-hoc mode (any two devices
switched on talked to each other - no access point), but these days I
just use the ADSL router as it can act as an access point.

 Simon

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