I have a laptop and a desktop, each with a Cisco
Aironet 350 802.11b wireless NIC. I'm trying to get them talking to each
other in ad hoc mode. The laptop runs Win2000 and the desktop dual boots
Win2000 and FreeBSD 4.3-stable. With both boxes running Win2000 things
work fine. When I boot the desktop in FreeBSD I use ifconfig to assign an
IP address to the wireless NIC, and use ancontrol to set ad hoc mode, turn off
WEP, set the SSID, set the node name, set authorization type to none, and set
the radio channel. ancontrol's status/config displays show that these are
being set, and the settings match the laptop, and after updating to 4.3-stable
I'm not seeing any an(4) error messages on the console. The status
displays on both boxes are showing "beacons received" and "beacons transmitted"
counters increasing, so I guess they're hearing each other at the radio
level. However, nothing gets through at the network level - no ping,
etc. Is there some other knob I need to tweak to get these two to talk to
each other?
Jim
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