Dud wireless internet connection (Brian Wootton) (marc)

[marc]

Brian Norman Wootton said...
> >
> > which at least doesn't 
> > > seem to cause any harm:
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > auto lo
> > > iface lo inet loopback
> > > # suggested mods 1-04-09
> > > #auto wlan0
> > > #iface wlan0 inet
> > >   wireless-essid BTHomeHub-xxxx
> > >   wireless-key xxxxxxxxxx
> > > #
> > > ----------------------------------
> >   
> 
> you need to remove the comment from:
> 
>   #iface wlan0 inet
> 
> and from:
> 
>   #auto wlan0
> 
> if you want it to autostart.
> 
> -- Cheers, Marc Sorry Marc, as I said above, only what's in interfaces 
> as I've shown works, if I do what you say and remove the #es, I get no 
> connection at all, not even eth0! Autostart works - only problem is 
> 'link quality' which is too poor to be of any use(2%-12%)and thus 
> knetworkmanager reports wlan0 as disconnected. brian

Looking at this again, you'll probably need dhcp on the iface line:

  iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Also, just in case, a non-hex wireless-key needs the s: prefix:

  wireless-key s:somepasswordx

-- 
Cheers,
Marc