[PLUG] Configuring wireless.opts

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 29 May 2004, AthlonRob wrote:

> I've honestly just skimmed this thread, so let me apologize if I'm
> coming from Mars....

Rob,

  Regardless of planet of origin, no apologies are necessary.

> If you've set your default route and stuff over eth0, then you unplug eth0
> and enable your wifi connection, your default route is likely still going
> to be over eth0, even if eth0 is down and your wifi connection has eth0's
> IP address.

  The default route _used to be_ set over eth0. This morning I was trying to
get the WiFi connections working on both portables. My fiancee's ThinkPad is
working like a champ; my Sony Vaio is still not quite there. But, there was
no route to the network when I booted with only the WiFi card in.

  Tests included popping the WiFi card and plugging in the cat5, then
rebooting. Still no route to the network. Both 'route' and 'netstat -rn'
show only 127.0.0.0.

> I'm not sure if you're trying to switch back and forth between wired and
> wireless... if you are, just re-issue the route add default gw line every
> time you switch to be sure it's set for the proper interface.

  No, I'm trying to get the wireless going and only switched to wired to see
what happened to my kernel routing table. I've no idea why it won't come
back when the notebook was working perfectly on the cable.

  Well, I've a bunch of shopping and errands to do. I'll get back to this
later today. One problem I face is that I'm an occasional SysAdmin so I keep
forgetting how to check for routes, set them back up again and so on. If I
did these things on a regular basis I'd have many fewer questions to ask.
But, that's not my job so I don't want to deal with these issues daily.

Thanks,

Rich

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