Hello, Using a Belkin F5D7010 Cardbus 802.11g card (Broadcom 4306 chipset) with wpa_supplicant-0.5.8 and kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r6. On the other end of the ad-hoc connection is a Netgear Rangemax WPN111 USB 802.11g adapter on XP host. Using WEP-104 security. Up to ndiswrapper-1.47 I have had no problem with this setup. With the two RC versions, infrastructure connections are still fine, but the ad-hoc connection silently fails. By "silently" I mean: the connection goes up exactly as normal, including correct setting of all TCP/IP parameters, and the dmesg output is exactly as before - but can't ping across it in either direction. Downgrading to 1.47 cures it. Relevant sections of /etc/conf.d/net: dhcp_wlan0="nodns" preferred_aps=( <SNIP> ) associate_order="preferredonly" blacklist_aps=( <SNIP> ) scan_mode_wlan0="Ad-Hoc" mode_myessid="ad-hoc" config_myessid=( "192.168.1.15 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) routes_myessid=( "default gw 192.168.1.1" ) dns_servers_myessid=( "192.168.1.1" ) and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf: ap_scan=2 fast_reauth=1 network={ ssid="myessid" mode=1 key_mgmt=NONE wep_key0="<SNIPSNIP>" wep_tx_keyidx=0 priority=1 } emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:20:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -w" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/bin/pptpconfig.php /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/wine" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d /usr/share/wine/fonts" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -w" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/" LANG="en_GB" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j7" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://brazil/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa apache2 asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dio dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp glitz gpm gtk2 hal i8x0 iconv ieee1394 imagemagick innodb isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde kerberos ldap libwww mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcntl pcre pdf perl php png posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdl session sharedmem soap sockets spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb utf8 vcd vhosts vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xmlrpc xorg xsl xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 fbdev vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
What about 1.50?
Problems are more severe with later versions: no connectivity at all. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201359
http://w1.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=255#c12 If this is still a issue with latest versions, please reopen.
I'm no longer able to test this card, had to replace it some months ago due to these issues.
