[SOLVED] garbled essid - (was - Intel Wireless 4965AGN in ad-hoc mode)

["jeetu.golani@gmail.com" <jeetu.golani@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Managed to figure out why the essid was coming up garbled when putting my wireless card in ad-hoc mode. Apparently NetworkManager seems to be playing a role in some way. I turned off Network Manager before putting the card in ad-hoc mode and it works :) Just in case someone runs into this in the future, the steps I followed are as follows:

$ /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
$ ifconfig wlan0 down
$ iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
$ iwconfig wlan0 essid "xyz"
$ ifconfig wlan0 up
$ iwconfig wlan0 essid "xyz"

Thanks everyone :)

Jeetu
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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, jeetu.golani@gmail.com <jeetu.golani@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've been grappling with this for quite long and I would sincerely appreciate if someone here could point out what I've been missing.

I've been trying to get my wireless card working in ad-hoc mode however strangely my essid ends up with garbled characters. This happens only in ad-hoc mode, in managed mode the essid is retained correctly.

The specs of what I'm using are as follows:

Debian Testing
Kernel: Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64
Wireless card: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
Driver: iwlagn
firmware-iwlwifi version: 228.61.2.24

I was using the 2.6.30 kernel and upgraded since in ad-hoc mode other devices could not see me and the essid would get garbled same as now. With the new kernel devices can now see me in a iwlist scan however since I can't set the essid of my device I'm unable to connect to any other network in ad-hoc mode.

Would sincerely appreciate if someone could point me out to what I should try next.

Thanks,
Jeetu
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