One more question about ad-hoc networking

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Hi,

I'm a Acer Aspire One newbie (about 24 hrs now) and I've spent much of that 24 hrs trying to connect through a Windows Mobile phone using WMWiFiRouter, which provides an ad-hoc connection to use the cell phone Internet. Scanning for networks doesn't show this ad-hoc network. I've tried tihs:

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=125&p=6454&hilit=ad+hoc#p6454

But, like others, I get this:
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=125&p=6454&hilit=ad+hoc#p6852

Does anyone know how I can use the connection of my Windows Mobile phone to get on the Internet? Also, would this Network Manager update possibly help?
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1209#p8036

Thanks for any help you can provide!!
 
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I have this working now! The problem was, turns out WMWifiRouter was using channel 6 not 11. Here's what I used:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/NetworkManager stop
ifconfig ath0 down
wlanconfig ath0 destroy
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ad-hoc
iwconfig ath0 channel 6
iwconfig ath0 essid WMWifiRouter
ifconfig ath0 up
dhclient ath0
 
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