I can confirm the above behaviour with an iwl3945. Interestingly it didn't with the sequence above, i had to bring the interface up, then run the iwconfig commands for it to work.
I guess this confirms the problems to do with network manager. -- iwl3945 doesn't support ad-hoc networks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201597 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs