NdisWrapper nearly working - was madwifi ath_pci config problems on Sony Vaio

[Gary Stainburn]

On Friday 18 November 2005 9:17 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Re: NdisWrapper nearly working - was madwifi ath_pci config problems
> on Sony Vaio Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:17:06 -0800
> From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>  (VitalStream, Inc.)
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 19:40 -0600, steve wrote:
> > Rick,
> >
> > Do D-Link APs (such as the DI-524) actually "manage" wireless
> > devices in managed mode?  Reason why I ask is because my home
> > network has an FC4 machine with madwifi and wpa_supplicant that
> > can't communicate with the other wireless (WinXP) machines on the
> > same subnet.  All successfully connect to the AP using WPA, but I
> > can't get them to even ping another wireless PC in managed mode.  I
> > thought a wireless AP in managed mode would retransmit traffic
> > destined for another authenticated wireless device, but I'm not
> > able to get that behavior out of the DI-524.  Could you offer some
> > advice?  If I can't get WPA to work, I'll have to regress down to
> > WEP.
>
> Actually, "managed" (or "infrastructure") mode is a bridging
> technique to connect wireless devices to a wired network.  You should
> be able to ping devices on the wired network and they should be able
> to ping you, but I don't think you can ping other wireless items in
> this mode. That's what ad-hoc is for.  ad-hoc = peer-to-peer

Surely that's part of the bridging performed by the AP, i.e. bringing 
the wireless-to-wireless ping connection?

If all wireless nodes can access all wired nodes and visa versa it does 
sound to be to be a problem with the config of the AP.

How to fix it would depend on the internals of the AP, which I can't 
help on, sorry.

-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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