Geoffrey King wrote:
>
> Mark et al ...
>
> I have been trying to set up two Linux boxes as separate stations on an
> ad-hoc network, using two D-Link DWL-650 cards (one in a laptop and one in
> a PCI host adapter). I understand that the D-Link uses the Prism2 chipset
> (ref: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/001102/ca_intersi.html ).

From what Mark said a long time ago (and from whom this list hasn't
heard for a while...?) the driver does not currently support ad-hoc
mode. As I understand it, this is a limitation of the driver, not the
cards at this point (earlier prism2 firmware supported only a non-802.11
complient ad-hoc mode, and mark didn't want to support that,
understandably) The new firmware should support full 802.11 ad-hoc, but
now the driver does not.

I've had success with the (binary) driver from Samsung for ad-hoc mode,
it works between my wife's windows laptop and my linux NAT box, at any
rate.

-Eric
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