Setting up a AD HOC connection

[pmithrandir]

Hi,

Tomorrow I have a meeting with a demonstration of a tablet with wifi only network connection.
They have no wifi rooter available in the meeting room.

My idea is to connect my laptop on the RJ45 network, and to have a ad hoc wifi connection between my tablett and my laptop.
After that I will share the internet connection.

My problem is that I can't connect the wifi connection as Ad HOC.

I removed all previous connection
I tried to set up the ad hoc connection, with fix IP adress on a different range (192.168.2.1)
When mageia try to start the connection, I get an error message that explain that problem happenned during the connection test.

Do you have any idea ?

[doktor5000]

AFAIK both Ad-Hoc partners need to be in Ad-Hoc mode. Is that the case?

[pmithrandir]

Sorry, I don't need it anymore, the tablet is on android that doesn't support ad hoc.

It seems that someone connected to my machine in ad hoc mode, but we didn't really test it.. It seems very buggy for me. Mageia should clean that a lot.

It's the first time that windows is better than linux for a network stuff...

[djennings]

It seems that someone connected to my machine in ad hoc mode, but we didn't really test it.. It seems very buggy for me. Mageia should clean that a lot

That depends on which driver you are using. Some drivers such as ath5k will work in Ad-Hoc mode but have great difficulty in switching between Managed and Ad-Hoc modes. You need to reboot after each change. It is not really Mageia's problem to fix. It is the driver authors'.

[pmithrandir]

Hi,

I think there is a lot of misunderstanding with mageia messages. I got errors when it worked, and no messages when there was errors.. I use the ATh5k driver you mentionned...