[PLUG] Wireless Networking on ThinkPad 600E/Xubuntu-7.04

[Bill Barry]

On 7/22/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Bill Barry wrote:
>
> > The first thing I look at when I am having wireless connection problems
> is
> > the output of the following four things
>
> Bill,
>
>    I have the first three, not the last. I've looked at them over and
> over,
> but they don't change. :-) I ran 'ifconfig -a' and 'route -n' with the
> wired
> connection up, then swapped cards, restarted the network, and ran
> iwconfig.
>
> > iwconfig
> > ifconfig
> > route -n
> > iptables --list
>
> pamela at pachy:~$ ifconfig
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:22:9B:03:F8
>            inet addr:192.168.55.5  Bcast:192.168.55.255  Mask:
> 255.255.255.0
>            inet6 addr: fe80::250:22ff:fe9b:3f8/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:3773 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:1539 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:559665 (546.5 KiB)  TX bytes:106437 (103.9 KiB)
>            Interrupt:11
>
>
Is this ifconfig from the wireless or the wired?  What is it with the
wireless?
The output of iwconfig indicates to me that your wireless card is working
just fine, otherwise how would it know the ESSID of your access point.  The
next step in the process is actually associating with that access point.
Ifconfig will reveal whether or not that worked.

Bill

Bill