Hi All,

I plan to post more detailed information this evening, when I'm in  
front of the computer in question, but for now, does anybody have Ad- 
hoc wifi working with an Acer Aspire One, or another machine with a  
AR242/AR5007 chipset?

I have installed Xubuntu 8.04.1 on the machine, and I then installed  
the latest HAL, from http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi- 
hal-0.10.5.6/ (dated 1st August), and the wifi now works fine when  
connecting to an access point (thanks to all who have worked on this!) …

When I destroy ath0 and recreate it in adhoc mode, however, I can see  
all the same networks as before, but I can't connect to the adhoc  
ones. Destroying again and creating as managed works OK again, the  
managed network reconnects OK, so the hardware doesn't seem to be  
getting in to a broken state, but I have not managed to get an adhoc  
connection working. In particular, I have a known-working adhoc  
network courtesy of WMWifiRouter on my 3G phone, to which my Mac OS X  
machine connects happily and uses as its internet connection, but I  
haven't managed to get that connection working from the Aspire One.

Any hints welcome, and any things to try also welcome. As I say, I'll  
post more detailed information about my hardware and network  
environment from home this evening, to help narrow down the problem.  
For now, though, any message like "It can be made to work on X machine  
with X configuration", or "It is known not to work in adhoc mode"  
would also be useful, so I can know if I'm doing useful investigations.

TIA,

-- 
Bill Gallafent.
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