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

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Bill Barry wrote:

> Is this ifconfig from the wireless or the wired?  What is it with the
> wireless?

   Er, ... wired. Here's with the wireless card installed:

root at pachy:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
  * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                          SIOCDELRT: No such process
                                                                          [ OK ]
root at pachy:~# ifconfig -a
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:1D:F7:76:9D
           inet addr:192.168.55.5  Bcast:192.168.55.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
           Interrupt:3 Base address:0x180

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:5234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:5234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:460612 (449.8 KiB)  TX bytes:460612 (449.8 KiB)

   eth1 is not running.

> 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.

   Or, the MAC? This is why I've been going in circles. All indications are
that the wireless networking should be good, but it's not.

> The next step in the process is actually associating with that access
> point. Ifconfig will reveal whether or not that worked.

   And how to I do this if I cannot ping or access any host on the LAN? As
you see above, I can't get there. Sigh.

Thanks,

Rich

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