On Friday 18 November 2005 9:17 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > Re: NdisWrapper nearly working - was madwifi ath_pci config problems > on Sony Vaio Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:17:06 -0800 > From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (VitalStream, Inc.) > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 19:40 -0600, steve wrote: > > Rick, > > > > Do D-Link APs (such as the DI-524) actually "manage" wireless > > devices in managed mode? Reason why I ask is because my home > > network has an FC4 machine with madwifi and wpa_supplicant that > > can't communicate with the other wireless (WinXP) machines on the > > same subnet. All successfully connect to the AP using WPA, but I > > can't get them to even ping another wireless PC in managed mode. I > > thought a wireless AP in managed mode would retransmit traffic > > destined for another authenticated wireless device, but I'm not > > able to get that behavior out of the DI-524. Could you offer some > > advice? If I can't get WPA to work, I'll have to regress down to > > WEP. > > Actually, "managed" (or "infrastructure") mode is a bridging > technique to connect wireless devices to a wired network. You should > be able to ping devices on the wired network and they should be able > to ping you, but I don't think you can ping other wireless items in > this mode. That's what ad-hoc is for. ad-hoc = peer-to-peer Surely that's part of the bridging performed by the AP, i.e. bringing the wireless-to-wireless ping connection? If all wireless nodes can access all wired nodes and visa versa it does sound to be to be a problem with the config of the AP. How to fix it would depend on the internals of the AP, which I can't help on, sorry. -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
