AdHoc (IBSS) on Nexus 7 (2013) connecting to one node only

Jaco Joubert jdjoubert at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 07:48:39 PDT 2014


Apologies for my limited knowledge on this, but I'm not 100% sure!

root at deb:/ # ls /sys/module/ | grep -E 'wcn|prima'
wcnss_ssr_8960
wcnsscore

Does this mean wcn36xx?  Or how can I check?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using wcn36xx or prima driver?
>
> 2014-07-22 15:25 GMT+01:00 Jaco Joubert <jdjoubert at gmail.com>:
>> I am currently working on a project where I need to connect to an
>> adhoc wifi network from a Nexus 7 (2013) device.
>> I first tried with the stock Android operating system and could not
>> get it to work because of apparent adhoc wifi limitations on Google
>> Android (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82).
>> I then installed CyanogenMod 11M8 with support for adhoc wifi
>> (http://www.thinktube.com/android-tech/46-android-wifi-ibss).
>> I am now able to connect to the adhoc wifi network, but I see strange
>> behavior.  With more than 2 nodes on the adhoc network (the tablet and
>> more than 1 other node), the tablet seems to randomly "pair" with a
>> single node and only route traffic to/from that node.  I cannot send
>> traffic to any other node on the adhoc network (getting "Destination
>> Host Unreachable"), although the other nodes in the network can all
>> communicate with each other.
>>
>> Can someone please just point me in the right direction.  Is this
>> possibly a limitation in the driver?  Or maybe just a configuration
>> issue.  Or maybe not driver-related at all (something in the operating
>> system)?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your time.
>>
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>
> --
> Best regards,
> Eugene



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