One more question about ad-hoc networking

Discussion in 'Networking' started by two_wheels, Aug 13, 2008.

  1. two_wheels

    two_wheels

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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!!
     
    two_wheels, Aug 13, 2008
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    two_wheels

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    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
     
    two_wheels, Aug 14, 2008
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