[olug] Wireless Help - Fixed ... Kinda

[Joe Catanzaro]

I was able to get pinging to work by typing this line:
  iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc channel 6 essid george key off rate 22M

But my current problem is that there is so much STDOUT thrown to the 
console screen that I'm unable to work. And when I try to connect remotely, 
it won't connect because there aren't any free CPU cycles. I'd love to slam 
all this to /dev/null, but I don't know where it's coming from. Any ideas?

And here's a sample of one of the many lines spamming my console:
Receiving packet 21 (MGMT/Beacon): fc 0x0080, length 59, mode = 0, iStatus 4
pkt c002cd70 info: time 267528504, silence 70, signal 0

Thanks,



At 10/20/2003 03:31 PM Monday, you wrote:
>I'm setting up a wireless network, and so far things are going pretty 
>good. I've got a PCI D-Link DWL-520+ card in a RH 7.3 box and a PCMCIA 
>D-Link DWL 650+ in a Windows laptop. The card in the Windows laptop 
>appears to be working fine. I've tested it in two laptops and it comes up, 
>etc. The card in the RH 7.3 box also comes up and attempts to "talk" to 
>the laptop. STDOUT on my console show packets going out, and also being 
>received, but nothing that will allow them to ping each other. I'm 
>assuming there's something wrong on the RH box, but I don't know enough 
>about Linux wireless to properly troubleshoot this. Also note, the RH box 
>has another NIC that works great on my internal network and communicates 
>properly with the laptop when I use a normal NIC in the laptop. And I'm 
>guessing I'm going to eventually have to add a route on the RH box to 
>point the wireless NIC to my firewall, but I'm assuming that won't affect 
>my current problem. I'm currently working through a few HowTos and I'm not 
>very impressed with them. Let me know if you have any suggestions for my 
>problem or an excellent reference for Linux wireless.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>Joe Catanzaro
>joecatanzaro at cox.net
>
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Joe Catanzaro
joecatanzaro at cox.net