Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Add Ad-hoc mode

[Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>]

--- On Thu, 23/2/12, Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> wrote:

> If it's anything like how it works on Ubuntu, when you start
> an Ad-Hoc
> network with NetworkManager, it chooses an IP range based on
> some
> internal logic (usually in the 10.0.0.0/8 private network)
> sets it's
> IP to something sensible then starts a DHCP server for
> everyone else
> on the network, so everyone should get a valid IP.

Thanks - that would make sense. (I have no experience setting up an ad-hoc network).

OTOH, just so that we have established the basics - I would shutdown networkmanger/wpa_supplicant and do things manually if I were to test prototype driver patches though. There are many reasons why ad-hoc mode itself might work but one cannot ping, other than the patch not working or the hardware not behaving. The latter is in the tcp/ip layer and quite a lot higher than the wifi mac layer - if one had iptables/netfilter blocking icmp echo, for example. I'd probably just look at the packet stats from iwconfig/ifconfig, and may be firing up wireshark. It is up to Attila to show that it does work, and Larry to show that it does not :-).

Hin-Tak