Wireless out of the box
shrek-m at gmx.de
shrek-m at gmx.de
Sun Nov 14 18:23:38 UTC 2004
Kevin Freeman wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 09:49 -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
>
>
>>Said another way, I'm looking to eliminate a box (access point) because
>>I need wireless connectivity aboard a small boat. The idea is to have
>>one regular PC (or laptop) running FC3 contain a wireless nic, and that
>>nic IS the access point to allow one or more other devices (laptops,
>>PC's, etc) access to that servers samba shares, etc.
>>
>>The dlink site suggests its possible(
>>http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=308 ), but I'd like to know if
>>its possible under FC3. On that page the statement :
>>Like all D-Link wireless adapters, the DWL-G510 can be used in Ad-Hoc
>>mode to connect directly with other 2.4GHz wireless computers for
>>peer-to-peer file sharing ...
>>is what I'm referring to.
>>
>>
>
>Ad-hoc mode is not the same as acting as an access point. In ad-hoc
>mode, all wireless devices connect to each other simultaneously. In AP
>mode each device connects only to an access point. Most if not all of
>the linux wireless drivers support ad-hoc mode, which should be
>sufficient for your requirements.
>
mode master ?
not really tested:
$ man iwconfig
mode Set the operating mode of the device, which depends on the net-
work topology. The mode can be Ad-Hoc (network composed
of only
one cell and without Access Point), Managed (node connects
to a
network composed of many Access Points, with roaming),
Master
(the node is the synchronisation master or acts as an
Access
Point), Repeater (the node forwards packets between other
wire-
less nodes), Secondary (the node acts as a
backup mas-
ter/repeater), Monitor (the node acts as a passive
monitor and
only receives packets) or Auto.
Example :
iwconfig eth0 mode Managed
iwconfig eth0 mode Ad-Hoc
# iwconfig eth2 mode master
# iwconfig eth2
eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"xxxxx" Nickname:"xxxxx"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:04:E2:80:AB:49
Bit Rate:54Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=20/200
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Security
mode:restricted
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
# ifconfig eth2
eth2 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:04:E2:80:AB:49
inet Adresse:192.168.2.11 Bcast:192.168.2.255
Maske:255.255.255.0
inet6 Adresse: fe80::204:e2ff:fe80:ab49/64
Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:600 (600.0 b)
Interrupt:5
# grep -i2 intersil /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
device: eth2
driver: prism54
desc: "Intersil Corporation Intersil ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]"
vendorId: 1260
deviceId: 3890
http://prism54.org
SMC-pci-card
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shrek-m
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