I am trying to configure my Wireless LAN in such a way that it can route packets from other nodes to a access points, so that nodes outside the reach of the access point can route their packets through my card. I understand that I need to put my card into Ad-hoc mode for this to work.
However, # iwconfig eth1 mode Ad-Hoc # service network restart fails to look up IP information for my card. DHCP is configured in the network. I have tried to put the card in Auto and Repeater mode too through iwconfig, with the same results. Funnily the configuration file at /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 still showed the mode as Managed even when I had set it to Repeater. Manually changing the setting did not yield anything fruitful.
I am using Fedora Core 5, 2.6.16 kernel, and my card only supports 802.11b not 802.11g.
Any idea?
Thanks, Debarshi