[WLANware] Associating with olsr-dhcp from linux

[Daniel Nitzpon]

sounds like your linux driver for your wifi card has no proper 
implementation of the ad-hoc mode. pick another driver.. ;-)

Jan Groenewald schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> The problem is particular to either freifunk or OLSR-DHCP.
> 
> I have OLSR DHCP running on ff1.6.28.
> Macs and Windows can associate and get DHCP, Linux cannot.
> 
> The same Linux (tested now on b43 (internal), rt61pci (PCMCIA from edimax),
> and (prism2?) senao ext2 long range PCMCIA cards, none of them can
> associate.
> 
> BUT All of these cards can associate to normal APs offering open or
> encrypted (non-OLSR) and get DHCP.
> 
> How can I debug this further? What output will help? I do think it is
> pre-DHCP, it is in fact association, from iwconfig's lack of ssid and 
> network signal, and from nm-applet in ubuntu, which has two convenient
> little lights, I believe one says "associated" (ethernet or wifi)
> and one says "dhcp received". I am running Ubuntu. dmes is not showing
> me something. I can run dnsmasq in debug mode, but we are not getting
> as far as DHCP. How do I run (iw*?) some debug mode tools to see 
> association errors? On the Freifunk (WRT54GL) or the Linux laptop?
> 
> Any tips appreciated.
> 
> regards,
> Jan