Trying the following script
creating an ad-hoc network
Monday, August 20th, 2007

After you’ve done the initial steps, it’s a matter of clicking the small world icon and selecting your ad-hoc network to begin hosting one at any time

Click on the menu and go to Tools > Control Panel > Connectivity.
Click the Connections button. Click New. Click Next. Name your network. Select WLAN as Connection type. Click no to “Scan for WLAN networks?”. Fill in ssid (anything is fine!) Uncheck ‘Network is hidden’, select Ad-Hoc for network mode. Security Method: None.

Click next > Advanced. In the IP Addresses tab uncheck Auto-retrieve IP address and put in:
IP address: 169.254.1.5
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Router 169.254.1.1

Click OK.

Click the globe icon/select connection and your new network should show up!

Im assuming other Nokias could see eachother this way but I only have one, can’t test that. I did get my wireless linux laptop to connect pretty easily from the command line like so:

ifdown wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 169.254.1.9
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
iwconfig wlan0 ssid <yourssid>
iwconfig wlan0 channel 1
ifconfig wlan0 up

But iwconfig wlan0 ssid <yourssid> doesn't work at N770
typing in iwconfig wlan0 ssid <yourssid>
i get error
Error: unrecognized wireless request "ssid"

What's wrong ?

Darius