On 16-Jun-01 Michael Richardson wrote:
>   If others have this working in adhoc mode, please let me know, and
> I'll assume my card just died.

So, Lucent cards have three modes:

1) BSS mode.  The card tries to connect to a base station.
2) Peer-to-peer mode.  The card connects to other cards.
3) Ad-hoc mode.  Old non-standard Lucent-only peer-to-peer mode.

You do not want #3.  (Windows drivers don't even offer the option
anymore.)  You want mode #2, which is identical to #1 except that one card
pretends to be a base station for all of the others:

  ifconfig wi0 nwid NETNAME -mediaopt adhoc
  wiconfig wi0 -c 1
  wiconfig wi0 -q NETNAME    # This one may not be needed

The network name NETNAME must be the same on all cards.

        -Kevin