A cry for help: anyone successfully using Prism II (SMC/D-Link/Compaq/Eumitcom/etc) 802.11b wireless ethernet cards in Ad Hoc mode, with a free OS (i.e. has a driver with source I can look at)
I have two computers with wireless cards in them: one's the SMC 2632W PCMCIA card, and the other's the 2602W, which is basically the same thing stuck into a PCI adaptor. The orinoco_cs driver in Linux 2.4 talks happily to the PCMCIA card, and with the help of various web resources I was able to write the necessary PCI glue for the other (it's not a PCI->PCMCIA bridge in any normal sense; it's a PLX 9052)
Problem is, I have nothing to test either of them against except the other (the desktop box is intended to substitute for a real access point) - and at least one of them's not working. They both flash lights and so forth. The driver idents them as "Firmware ID 1F vendor 0x6 (LinkSys/D-Link) version 0.7". I can run iwconfig to set ESSID, put the cards into IBSS mode, set the channel, and so forth, then run ifconfig to set addresses and bring them up. At which point I find that they don't actually see each other on the network ...
I've tried both the old Lucent port3 and the newer ibss mode. Firmware version is claimed to be 0.7 - maybe there's something newer somewhere, I don't know. Anyone any clues?
Oh, I'll send my PCI glue stuff to anyone who asks for it and can can tell me whether it works ...