| 00:56:26 | wagdog | this place is quiet... |
| 03:56:04 | Bradipo_ | Is it possible to use two 802.11 cards without a WAP (ala crossover cable)? |
| 03:57:42 | BZFlag | yes |
| 03:58:08 | Bradipo_ | I'm trying to setup two OpenBSD laptops to talk to each other (without the WAP). |
| 03:58:43 | Bradipo_ | Any tips on making this work? |
| 03:58:46 | Bradipo_ | They have the same NWID. |
| 03:58:52 | BZFlag | you want the cards in Ad-hoc mode |
| 03:58:59 | Bradipo_ | Ahh. |
| 03:59:10 | Bradipo_ | I knew I had seen that before. |
| 03:59:25 | BZFlag | see man iwconfig and the "mode" paragrah. |
| 03:59:38 | Bradipo_ | I'll have a look. |
| 04:03:02 | Bradipo_ | Thanks, that looks like that will work just fine. |
| 04:03:13 | Bradipo_ | I knew it could be done, I just had forgotten the keyword ``adhoc'' :-) |
| 04:06:14 | BZFlag | np |
| 04:06:38 | BZFlag | now, are you close enough that anyone else here can jump in? ;-) |
| 04:06:56 | Bradipo_ | Into what? |
| 04:07:09 | Bradipo_ | Ahh, I don't know. |
| 04:07:15 | Bradipo_ | It depends on where ``here'' is... |
| 04:11:51 | BZFlag | is +4017.555 lat / -11142.368 long. |
| 04:15:00 | Bradipo_ | is +4016.687 lat. / -11141.537 lon. |
| 04:17:56 | Bradipo_ | Don't think it will make it that far. |
| 04:20:08 | BZFlag | heh, nope. |
| 04:20:52 | Bradipo_ | Is there anything else besides changing the mode to adhoc? |
| 04:24:18 | BZFlag | just add IP addresses, and that should be it. |
| 04:24:23 | Bradipo_ | Hmm. |
| 04:24:35 | Bradipo_ | Done that, but no ping gets a pong. |
| 04:25:08 | Bradipo_ | Hopefully it's misconfiguration and not the fact that the two cards are different manufacturers... |
| 04:26:42 | BZFlag | tcpdump ? |
| 04:26:57 | Bradipo_ | Hmm, tried that on the remote side---should try on client. |
| 04:27:41 | Bradipo_ | Hmm, seeing some arp traffic. |
| 04:27:56 | Bradipo_ | I'm not entirely certain that the cards are even talking yet. |
| 04:28:02 | Bradipo_ | Even though they are both in adhoc mode. |
| 04:34:22 | Bradipo_ | Do they have to be on the same channel? |
| 04:38:17 | Bradipo_ | Cool. |
| 04:38:31 | BZFlag | should be but some mfg use different channels by default. |
| 04:38:33 | Bradipo_ | The channels were not the same and now I can ping between them. |
| 04:38:49 | Bradipo_ | Well, now that I set them the same. |
| 04:40:08 | Bradipo_ | It's working. |
| 04:40:29 | Bradipo_ | Working with open source systems is the best! |
| 04:40:29 | Bradipo_ | :-) |
| 04:41:05 | fozzmoo | Uh oh. |
| 04:42:54 | BZFlag | Bradipo: cool. gotta love it. ;-) |
| 04:43:01 | Bradipo_ | Oh yeah. |
| 04:43:04 | Bradipo_ | Thanks for your help. |
| 04:43:07 | BZFlag | np |
| 05:23:27 | BZFlag | http://www.linuxjournal.com/rc2002/ <- vote for BZFlag NOW! ;-) |
| 17:59:31 | jmoc714 | 06greetings? |
| 17:59:52 | jmoc714 | 06/me thinx Are they asleep? |