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? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
