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From: David Gibson (davidgibson.dropbear.id.au)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 00:51:48 CST

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    On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:18:18PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
    > On Wednesday, 2 January 2002 at 16:51:58 +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
    > > We setup a small wireless network here using IBSS-Adhoc mode with some very
    > > different machines.
    > >
    > > 1. 486 with Orinoco Silver through ISA-PCMCIA bridge (wvlan_cs)
    > > 2. Windows 98 Laptop with Orinoco Silver
    > > 3. Linux Laptop with Netgear MA401 (orinoco_cs)
    > > 4. Titanium Powerbook with Airport Card
    > >
    > > And it all works fine. I must say, the Powerbook wins hands down for
    > > configuration. It autodetected the ESSID and pulled a DHCP address without
    > > blinking.
    > >
    > > And to all those naysayers saying it couldn't be done with the Powerbook,
    > > you were wrong.
    >
    > Hmm. I haven't been able to connect Linux and FreeBSD with ad-hoc
    > mode. Have you had any luck there?

    Chances are that one end is using demo ad-hoc mode and the other is
    using IBSS mode, because of different defaults in the drivers. 

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