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Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: romain on June 01, 2004, 06:52:37 am
Hello,

With my zaurus C860 and C760 I was able to use ad-hoc mode with my wireless card, using the network configuration software. But with the SL6000, I cannot chose Ad-hoc mode, the only option is \"infrastructure\"... is there a way to use ad-hoc mode on SL6000 ? Why did sharp guys removed this functionnality from the SL6000 ROM ?!??
I cannot use iwconfig \"mode\" option, so I patched SHARP kernel source tree with wireless extension 13 patch, but it doesn\'t work...
Maybe someone has a clue ?

Thank you,
Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: Mickeyl on June 01, 2004, 08:56:11 am
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Why did sharp guys removed this functionnality from the SL6000 ROM ?!??

Hmm... I can\'t say anything politically correct here
You can try building a tosa-kernel with OpenEmbedded, we enable and patch the wireless extensions up to V15 there.
Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: romain on June 01, 2004, 09:27:11 pm
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Why did sharp guys removed this functionnality from the SL6000 ROM ?!??

Hmm... I can\'t say anything politically correct here
You can try building a tosa-kernel with OpenEmbedded, we enable and patch the wireless extensions up to V15 there.
Ok I would like to try this, but I didn\'t find neither the kernel source tree nor the root fs, but only binaries... am I wrong ?
Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: skoorb on June 01, 2004, 09:36:43 pm
there is a selection in the network menu under settings for ad-hoc if you unclick the ess-id any field then you get the selection fo ad-hoc
Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: romain on June 01, 2004, 11:16:23 pm
I don\'t have this ad-hoc option ! I use SHARP kernel source tree for SL6000, and I don\'t have this option. I cannot neither select ad-hoc mode (it doesn\'t appear in the list) nor change the channel (the option is not here anymore, whereas it was on both my C760 and C860)...
Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: cvmiller on June 02, 2004, 12:27:54 pm
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I don\'t have this ad-hoc option ! I use SHARP kernel source tree for SL6000, and I don\'t have this option. I cannot neither select ad-hoc mode (it doesn\'t appear in the list) nor change the channel (the option is not here anymore, whereas it was on both my C760 and C860)...


Perhaps there is more to you config. I have a stock SL-6000 (using the Sharp ROM) and my network control panel does have an ad-hoc option under the Config Tab. Just be sure to uncheck \"non-Spec ESS-ID\" option.

I hope this helps,

Craig...
Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: Mickeyl on June 02, 2004, 12:34:35 pm
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Why did sharp guys removed this functionnality from the SL6000 ROM ?!??

Hmm... I can\'t say anything politically correct here
You can try building a tosa-kernel with OpenEmbedded, we enable and patch the wireless extensions up to V15 there.
Ok I would like to try this, but I didn\'t find neither the kernel source tree nor the root fs, but only binaries... am I wrong ?

http://developer.ezaurus.com/sl_j/source/source_dl.htm (http://developer.ezaurus.com/sl_j/source/source_dl.htm)
Title: Ad-hoc mode on SL6000
Post by: romain on June 02, 2004, 11:35:20 pm
Okay I tried an OpenZaurus ROM with SL5600 ROM but all I get is a command line and no way to launch OPIE (/etc/init.d/opie start doesn\'t work).
The kernel source tree from SHARP is v1.07, whereas Craig\'s one is v1.12, maybe that\'s why I don\'t have ad-hoc mode (even if I uncheck \"non-Spec ESS-ID\" option). So I go on my investigations... I\'ll try to find ROM v1.12 on SHARP website.
By the way did someone managed to have more than 1 network interfaces working at the same time ? I can\'t with SHARP ROM (v1.07), I have to switch off wireless lan if I want to use my ethernet CF card for example... this really sux !