Adhoc connection between Ubuntu to Ubuntu

Question

On one machine I created one adhoc network with manual setting. that mean not providing any manual IP addresses. And from another machine I am trying to connect that ad hock network.It is showing me that ad hock network in my wireless network list.But I am not able to connect. I tried with windows machine. from windows machine I tried to connect and its working fine.But with Ubuntu to Ubuntu its not connecting. Am I missing something. Need some help. Thank you.

lo        no wireless extensions.

vmnet8    no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"NEWNET"  
  Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Cell: F6:6A:64:3C:AD:59   
  Tx-Power=13 dBm   
  Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
  Power Management:off

eth0      no wireless extensions.

vmnet1    no wireless extensions.



wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ec:55:f9:77:90:88  
  inet addr:10.42.0.1  Bcast:10.42.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  inet6 addr: fe80::ee55:f9ff:fe77:9088/64 Scope:Link
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:142440 errors:0 dropped:1625 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:82989 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
  RX bytes:58226725 (58.2 MB)  TX bytes:15528756 (15.5 MB)

Can you include the output of iwconfig and ifconfig in your question? — jmunsch, Jun 28 '14 at 17:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '14 at 02:15

Look for essid:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep -i 'essid'

release the ip:

sudo dhclient -r wlan0

connect to NEWNET:

sudo iwlist wlan0 essid NEWNET

Assign IP:

sudo dhclient wlan0

Check results:

dmesg

Also consider looking at the results of sudo iwlist wlan0 scan to see if there is any useful information in regards to network masks, radio channels, or the like that might not be matching up.

Adhoc connection between Ubuntu to Ubuntu

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