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From: Geoffrey King (geoffsunheartcowfork.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 01:06:28 CST

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    Thanks very much, Eric. I'll give the Samsung driver a go ...

    I finally found a mailing list archive just after I mailed to the
    list ... and I saw that a number of other people have been having
    trouble with this.

    For those on the list, here's an archive of the list:
    http://www.lifix.fi/extarchive/lwlan/

    Perhaps that can go in the FAQ?

    Is Mark reading this list?

    I'm prepared to write up a bit of a how-to now that I've been through this
    pain, but I'm only willing to do it in return for adhoc networking support
    in linux-wlan ... :-) ...

    The PrismII chipsets are popping up in a lot of cheap cards at the
    moment ...

    Yay!

    Geoff

    On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:

    > 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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