John Summerfied wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm running my desktop WiFi card in Ad-hoc mode,
> but for some curious reason my laptop only works well
> if set to Managed mode.
> It works sporadically if set to Ad-hoc mode.
>
> I'm puzzled by this;
> it doesn't really matter, as it seems to work perfectly in this way.
> But I'd be interested to know why.
>
> I should say that both the cards are Orinoco Gold (Classic),
> the one in the desktop being in a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor.
> I'm running FC-4.
>
"Managed" is for use with an access point.
I know that is the theory.
That is why I am puzzled that my laptop card
only works in Managed mode with my desktop in Ad-hoc mode.
"Ad hoc" is for use betweeu (typically) peecees and such
without using
an access point. I'd not expect a wireless device configured "ad hoc" to
talk especially well to an access point.
I don't have an access point.
"Master" configures the device as an access point. You
should be able to
configure either one of your Orinoccos as "Master" and the other
"Managed."
Sadly this is not possible, at least with the orinoco_cs driver
in the kernel.
Or rather, if anyone is able to do this -
run the Orinoco Classic Gold or Silver card in Master mode -
I should be very interested to hear.
"Monitor" is used by software such as Kismet to sniff the
air
and see what traffic's about. Good for conducting a security audit of your
neighbourhood to discover rogue users and access points.
I tried the hostap driver,
but it did not seem to work with the Orinoco cards.
Is there any hope that it will?
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