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Nikos.Alexandris
August 22nd, 2009, 11:44 AM
Hi!

I 've been playing around to get an ad-hoc wireless connection between two ubuntu-boxes (as stated in the title of this thread). Unfortunately (for me) I can't get it working no matter what guide I follow (there are several on the web, like [1][2][3]).

Did anybody successfully shared an internet connection using ad-hoc between a Mac (running Ubuntu of course) and another laptop?

Whenever I try to create manually a new wireless network, a network called "hoving's ad-hoc" pop's out although I am 100% sure that I have never used this name to name a network profile. Where is this coming from?

Thanks, Nikos

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Adhoc
[2] http://www.ubuntugeek.com/creating-an-adhoc-host-with-ubuntu.html
[3] http://www.prash-babu.com/2008/08/how-to-createjoin-adhoc-network-in.html
Nikos.Alexandris
August 24th, 2009, 06:53 AM
Whenever I try to create manually a new wireless network, a network called "hoving's ad-hoc" pop's out although I am 100% sure that I have never used this name to name a network profile. Where is this coming from?


Silly... it's another person's ad-hoc which pop's up all the time. How can I force it to be ignored?
WindPower
October 16th, 2009, 12:48 AM
I followed all of those too and none of them worked. I'm trying to connect to an unprotected ad-hoc network created in Vista from a MacBookPro5,3 on 9.04 64-bit. I don't get any popups though, and I can't even see the ad-hoc network in the wireless networks list anyway :confused:
Other than that, the wireless functions just fine, I could even connect to a WPA network. :)
Nikos.Alexandris
October 16th, 2009, 02:14 AM
I followed all of those too and none of them worked. I'm trying to connect to an unprotected ad-hoc network created in Vista from a MacBookPro5,3 on 9.04 64-bit. I don't get any popups though, and I can't even see the ad-hoc network in the wireless networks list anyway :confused:
Other than that, the wireless functions just fine, I could even connect to a WPA network. :)

Right, no problem using any wireless connection (WEP, WPA, WPA2, etc.). But the ad-hoc story... :-(