[PLUG] Clinic Heads Up

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Sat Oct 20 21:37:57 UTC 2007


What do you mean ifconfig showed the network running but you had no IP address?
And I know this question was asked many years ago, but are you set up
to get a dynamic ip address
iface eth0 inet dhcp
or are you set up for a static IP on the wireless interface?

Bill

On 10/20/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    The folks at the Ubuntu party had no idea why the wireless networking on
> the ThinkPad 600E wasn't working. It showed the same symptoms I experienced
> last business trip with the Sony: ifconfig showed the network running,
> iwconfig showed the wireless card connecting to the access point, iwlist
> scan showed all the nodes, but no IP address and no connection anywhere.
>
>    So, I'll be at tomorrow's clinic and hope that you wireless gurus can help
> me get wireless networking on this laptop working. The installed
> distribution is Xubuntu-7.10.
>
> Rich
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