Wireless Ad-Hoc mode

Hi everyone, it's my first post after the first few days with arch (which I find great).
Now I have a small via c7 pc and I bought a wireless pen dwl-122g, sure that it was easy to make it act like a router over the wireless card.
It seems that it is possible using the Ad-Hoc mode, so I installed the right driver and did something like that
http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2005.10.23.html
Everything looks fine but I don't get the last step, who can I join that wireless network??
I use a mac (with leopard) as a client, but I can't find the "Koala" (that's the essid) network anywhere.
Am I missing something?

This is my iwconfig output
wlan0 RT73 WLAN ESSID:"Koala"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency=2.437 GHz Cell: CA:8D:8A:6A:A4:6C
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level:-121 dBm Noise level:-99 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
And this is ifconfig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B0:D0:CC:D0
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:b0ff:fed0:ccd0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:469 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:42386 (41.3 Kb)
Is there anything wrong??
Why I'm not able to detect any wireless network??

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