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

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jul 23 23:12:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Bill Barry wrote:

>  This is definitely a routing problem. Does it work with the wired
> connection?

   Yes. No problems at all.

> Also, in /etc/network/interfaces, get rid of these two lines
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp

   They're not there. Here is the current /etc/network/interfaces (with the
ESSID removed, but it's correct):

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.55.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.55.4
wireless-essid <name>

auto eth1

   On ubuntu fora I've seen references to an ath0 interface, but I've never
come across that before.

> This is very likely what is adding that extra 169.254.0.0 route and could be
> the cause of confusion. At least we know they are unncessary because you
> don't have an eth0 interface. More likely it is a routing problem in your
> router, but delete those lines, restart your network and see if that helps.

   The router has not changed since the same laptop worked wirelessly with
other distributions.

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