[Commotion-dev] IBSS-RSN for Linux

[The Doctor]

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On 07/17/2013 07:32 PM, Dan Staples wrote:

> I remember trying to get ad-hoc working on those damn netbooks when
> I was compiling Commotion-OpenWRT for x86. It seemed like a lost
> cause, with those broadcom drivers.

Broadcom chips don't run on magick smoke, they run on fail.

> The requirements might just have to be using a certain version of
> Debian (I would suggest we stay away from being Ubuntu-specific,
> given their recent bad track record regarding privacy), AND you
> must have a chipset whose driver supports ad-hoc mode...

We ran into the same problem and worked out a partial solution:

https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium/issues/195

In summary, there was an option that had to be turned on in the Linux
kernel, which then had to be recompiled.  Even then, not all Broadcom
chips work (just more than none of them).

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