Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable
On 2011-08-06 15:29:04 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
> Thanks for your help! I was finally able to get it to work with the
> following, which I put into a script:
>
> /etc/init.d/wicd stop
> ifconfig $IFACE down
> iwconfig $IFACE essid $ESSID mode Ad-Hoc channel $CHANNEL
> ifconfig $IFACE up $IPADDR
> iwconfig $IFACE essid $ESSID mode Ad-Hoc channel $CHANNEL
> route add default gw $DEFAULTGW $IFACE
>
> Adding google dns into resolv.conf allowed me to successfully get
> internet. I now have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. Why do I have to call iwconfig twice?
I don't know. I just noticed that if I used only one of them, it
didn't work (IIRC, ifconfig ... up ... fails without the first
iwconfig, and ifconfig ... up ... resets iwconfig settings,
somethink like that).
> 2. Is wicd at fault in this case? If so, should I file a bug report?
No, because I stop wicd first to avoid bad interactions between wicd
(which can do things automatically) and this script: it is bad to have
2 different active methods to do a wifi connection at the same time.
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