From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:14:39 +1000 From: Steven Hanley To: Linux PPC Dev Subject: cant set port_type in new airport driver Message-ID: <20010508171439.A1386@wibble.net> Reply-To: Steven Hanley Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: All in ben's old driver for the airport I was able to do modprobe airport port_type=3 to set the Mode to Ad-hoc rather than managed. however if the card is already in Managed mode iwconfig airport mode Ad-hoc will fail now in the new driver I can no longer pass the port_type as a paramater to the modprobe (it isnt in the sources for airport.c orinoco.c or hermes.c) and yet you still can not change to Ad-hoc mode with iwconfig, the sourced in orinoco.c for the ioctl to set the mode still are the same effectively. So doe sanyone know how to set the mode to Ad-hoc in the new airport driver? I cant use Managed as I dont use a base station, I use another card in another computer also in Ad-hoc mode and set up a cipe link over the link. See You Steve -- sjh@wibble.net http://wibble.net/~sjh/ Look Up In The Sky Is it a bird? No Is it a plane? No Is it a small blue banana? YES ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/