perhaps in my early moments of running hardy i ran some gnome or xfce desktop tool which configured my wireless somehow, and perhaps simply copying the /etc/network/interfaces to intrepid is skipping some pertinent step? i just looked in xfce4 and couldn't find any tool for configuring wireless. is there one? what is the name (package) for either the xfce or the gnome tool?<br>
tia,<br>-g<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:25 AM, greg wm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tclugl@whitleymott.net">tclugl@whitleymott.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>my rtl8180 wireless pcmcia in my thinkpad works great in hardy. my /etc/network/interfaces contains<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
auto wlan0<br>iface wlan0 inet dhcp<br> wireless-essid wm<br> wireless-key foobar<br></blockquote>and it comes right up on bootup. i dropped the same /etc/network/interfaces into intrepid (2.6.27-15-generic), but no luck. might there be something else i need to do? the rtl8180 modules load, but no route nor ipaddress gets set. similarly in centos5.4 (2.6.18-164.2.1.el5) the rtl8180 modules load, but here i *do* get a route and ipaddress, it completes DHCP but then can't ping the gateway or anything except itself, and tho the 'Act' light on the card is flashing, the 'Link' light is dark. the lights are the same for intrepid. in hardy, where it works, the 'Link' light is lit.<br>
<br>the only relevant /var/log/messages line, in intrepid:<br>kernel: [ 681.206785] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready<br><br>in centos5.4:<br>avahi-daemon[2610]: Registering new address record for 192.168.0.71 on wlan0.<br>
<br>i suspect the hardy driver is good and the others deficient, but i dunno. where would i look to compare driver versions? any other ideas?<br></div></div>
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