wireless problem

[James Takac]

Hi Paul

On Monday 04 May 2009 15:06:06 Paul Gear wrote:
> Scott Evans wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > Are you getting your routes from DHCP or are they set statically?
> >
> > Also confirm your settings from one of the other PC's that you have
> > working on your network.
> >
> > Is there a conflict with IP numbers?
>
> Those are good suggestions.  James, can you post the output of the ip
> commands you used before from another (working) machine?  (Use "ipconfig
> /all" and "netstat -rn" instead if it's a Windows system.)
>
> Paul



Just for the record I hadn't seen Scott's post yet so am assuming I will when 
I check my google spam folder.

I thought ipconfig was the Windows program and ifconfig was the Linux one? 
ipconfig doesn't work on any of my Ubuntu distros whilst ifconfig does

Anyways the ouputs from this pc are as follows

ifconfig gives

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:46:6c:84:83  
          inet addr:10.1.1.3  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:46ff:fe6c:8483/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:42309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:18857093 (17.9 MB)  TX bytes:3896581 (3.7 MB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:74:3f:75:35  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xcc00 

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:74:3f:75:35  
          inet addr:169.254.4.139  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xcc00 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:70784 (69.1 KB)  TX bytes:70784 (69.1 KB)

wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-13-46-6C-84-83-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:158006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1933
          TX packets:35437 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 
          RX bytes:32933885 (31.4 MB)  TX bytes:5441453 (5.1 MB)
          Interrupt:11 


ip addr show gives

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 
1000
    link/ether 00:08:74:3f:75:35 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 169.254.4.139/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope link eth0:avahi
3: wifi0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 199
    link/ieee802.11 00:13:46:6c:84:83 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: ath0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue 
    link/ether 00:13:46:6c:84:83 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.1.1.3/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global ath0
    inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe6c:8483/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

and ip route ls gives

169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 169.254.4.139 
10.0.0.0/8 dev ath0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.1.1.3 
default via 10.1.1.1 dev ath0 
default dev eth0  scope link  metric 1000 

I noticed the one and only 10.1.1.1 this time which is the gateway to my modem

This is from a working unit, i.e. the one I'm typing on right now. It could be 
that my last update messed things up as I hadn't used that laptop since then?

James