Hi Eric,
there are a lot of wifi cards and drivers which don't support ad-hoc mode. I had bad experience with RTL based wifi cards. More info about drivers and supported modes can be found here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers
Try to use Atheros based cards, most of them support Ad-Hoc mode.
best regards, Simon
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 04:45:50PM -0500, Conner, Eric wrote:
I have been trying to get my wireless network to establish an ad-hoc network and I just can't seem to do it. It appears the linux 2.6.31 kernel does not support the RealTek 8185L (Encore ENLWI-G2) wireless card I have. The drivers it does install are older and seem to not support Ad-Hoc networking.
Can anyone recommend a wireless card and/or a linux distro that easily supports ad-hoc networking? I have the tried latest openSuse and Ubuntu distros.
Is this a common problem with Linux? I have set up wireless ad-hoc networks before in windows and never really had a problem.
Or better yet - does anyone have patches to the realtek 8185L drivers to use the net_device_ops struct as opposed to the deprecated net_device struct?
Thanks
Eric
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