[PLUG] Wireless Networking Ubuntu Laptop

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Russell Johnson wrote:

> Yes, interface lo is the loopback, but that's just it… It's local to the
> machine only. usually on the 127.0.0.0 network. By local I mean that
> machine ONLY. The lo interface is not used for external communication.
> Another machine on the same network IS external communication.

   Yes, I know this. That external machine is called the 'gateway' and
defined in /etc/network/interfaces. It is reached via the wireless access
point.

> You'll maybe need to set up the eth0 or eth1 network for connectivity to
> another not local the that machine.

   ifconfig -a shows no ethernet interfaces; only the wireless (wlan0) is
used on that machine.

Rich