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Re: [LUG] Wireless frustration

 

Something else is have you assigned both an Ip adress? as there is no DHCP server. Also try channel 11 on both as channel 1 is used by next door!

Alexis wrote:
Okay, many thanks for the reply :-)
I've set up a new ad-hoc network on the XP box, "false-hackerz" - I get
the following: (nb kernel is home brew - I seem to be stuck for wireless
tools supporting v22 of Wireless extension though - I might have to
build from source)
alexis@pussycat:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...

eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:7F:D9:4C:77
                    ESSID:"SpeedTouch5CEE2B" <-- this must be one of the
neighbours
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36
Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Quality=89/100  Signal level=-69 dBm  Noise
level=-66 dBm
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Extra: Last beacon: 384ms ago
          Cell 02 - Address: 5E:15:5E:15:10:5C
                    ESSID:"false-hackerz" <----------the XP laptop
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Ad-Hoc
                    Channel:1
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
                    Quality=98/100  Signal level=-44 dBm  Noise
level=-66 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 391ms ago

from iwconfig I get:
alexis@pussycat:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 22
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
Some things may be broken...

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"none"  Nickname:"Broadcom 4311"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.472 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
          Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-256 dBm  Noise level=-256
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I've tried running wpa_supplicant with an un-modified copy of its
template config file - it makes a difference to the gui "Wireless
Assistant" which can then see the speedtouch next door, but doesn't seem
to affect the cli tools.  So now I am stumped - I don't know what it is
I'm missing because I don't really know what I'm looking for.

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 16:39 +0000, Kevin Lucas wrote:
  
whats the output from iwconfig? or iwscan is the windoze machine
running as an access point?

have you used where eth0 is your wirless card name? 
    
 iwconfig eth0 ap any
      
Alexis wrote: 
    
Happy New Year to all :-)

I wonder if anyone in the group can further my understanding, or
help solve this problem, or something like that.

I've been trying to set up an ad-hoc wireless network with my wife's
laptop and my own, just for the sake of actually being able to do it
really.  I managed after a great deal of messing about to do it in
windows (hers has XP mine has Vista (which is vile evil demon spawn btw
phut! phut!)).

I've got my (Broadcom) wireless card working natively in Ubuntu where it
can detect other networks, but I haven't figured out how to make it
visible yet.  It's not fully supported but I'm guessing if it can
receive it can also transmit (plus there are other reports of success).
So the root of the problem is how to get it so it is visible to the XP
machine.  I can use iwconfig to set the mode and and essid, and iwlist
scanning to detect other networks, but got no further than this.

Basically I'll be happy if I can get the XP machine to see this one now
and can set up any other stuff from there, but beyond putting the card
in ad-hoc mode and providing an essid I'm really stumped.  We use wired
ethernet for internet and file sharing so don't have a wireless access
point to test against. So, help please!

Many thanks in advance,
Alexis



  
      
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