Subject: Re: to 2.4 tree or not to 2.4 tree
From: Nick Shaff (spunkycadaver@mail.mac.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 15:36:18 MDT
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 01:39, you wrote:
> Paul J. Lucas's bits of Tue, 24 Jul 2001 translated to:
> >On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Jim Cole wrote:
> >> MODE="Ad-Hoc"
> >> ;;
> >
> > Are you sure that's Ad-Hoc? If so, out of curiosity, wy are you
> > running ad-hoc at home? Most people run managed (i.e., with a
> > base station).
>
> Yes, it is Ad-Hoc. I don't have a real base station and am instead using
> Software Basestation running on a G4. It was not clear to me how to
> configure for managed with Software Basestation. Or I should say, my
> attempts to configure that way didn't lead to a functional connection. On
> the other hand, Ad-Hoc seems to work fine, so that is what I am using for
> the time being. You can read that as me being thus far too lazy to pursue
> the issue.
>
> >> 5. Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 with something like
> >
> > Why did you do that? I didn't do that in my config.
>
> This was the last step. After all of the other configuration, an attempt
> to establish a connection resulted in failure with a log message referring
> to eth1 interface. I don't recall the exact message, but the implication
> was that the ifcfg-eth1 file was expected to be present.
>
>
> Jim
Jim, I used the instructions you sent, and the ones on the page you suggested
as well and seem to be working great in managed mode with my basestation
being a Powermac G4 cube running a software basestation. Odd.
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