From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Evert van Grootheest Subject: Re: adm8211 (from linville wireless-2.6) in xen guest Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:56:11 +0100 Message-ID: <45B532FB.6080200@caiway.nl> References: <45B208DA.8010807@caiway.nl> <200701221430.50547.flamingice@sourmilk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cardassian.kabelfoon.nl ([62.45.45.18]:55604 "EHLO cardassian.kabelfoon.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751934AbXAVV4O (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:56:14 -0500 To: Michael Wu In-Reply-To: <200701221430.50547.flamingice@sourmilk.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Michael, Michael Wu wrote: > On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:19, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote: > >> One question, though. I'm trying to use it in ad-hoc mode. If there's no >> other station with the same essid, it just keeps mentioning that >> (besides the BCNTC and TSFTF messages) >> >> wlan0: No matching adhoc sta found. Creating IBSS 00:04:e2:3f:2a:70 CHAN=11 >> >> And the IBSS changes every time, which is about every 30 seconds. Is it >> really supposed to change the IBSS each time? >> > Probably not, but I never debugged adhoc mode enough. > If there're some tests I can help with, just ask. I've decided yesterday that I really should get myself a WRT54G or somesuch. So there's not much pressure for this adm8211 anymore. >> The reason I ask is that my wife has a laptop with an Atheros chip in >> it. If it is configured for ad-hoc it creates the IBSS and sticks with >> it. So I now have two computers that have different behaviour in this >> respect. That in itself is not, I guess, a problem. But it seems to me >> that the random IBSS created by the adm8211 would result in two stations >> not seeing eachother or taking longer than necessary to find eachother? >> >> > Have you checked? I think the bssid should stop changing once another station > with the same ssid comes into range. > Well, it took more than 1 minute and I left for coffee. When I returned they had found eachother. Do you perhaps know whether there's a sourcetree somewhere of the dscape code that can be compiled as external modules for 2.6.18? At least I can help test the dscape code, which I understand is the current future of wireless in linux. Thanks, Jan Evert