[Ubuntu Chicago] ubuntu wireless

jason jenkins jenkins27 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 00:24:06 BST 2007


OK, here is the info on my card.  After I removed wpasupplicant it had a box
pop up that said network manager was missing info.  I no longer have the
network manager icon on the top left.

On 8/14/07, Wally Valters <deepsky99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> not sure if last message got through, I got a size warning...  posting
> again:
>
> less is like more (haha)
>
> more exists in linux as well as windows, and you can get less for
> windows.  they are "pager" programs. they take the output of something (like
> lshw) ands allow you to scroll thorough it.
>
> more allows forward scrolling only , less allows both.  you should type
> man less in a terminal window (man uses less by default actually) to see how
> to use it well.  It will come in handy all the time
>
> btw typing 'q' exits less
>
> Yes MAC address should be the same, but the filtering is a security
> placebo  as well.  You can fake a MAC address rather easily
>
> On 8/14/07, jason jenkins <jenkins27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ya, I am broadcasting my ESSID.  Also, ubuntu will use the same MAC
> > address for my card as windows correct?  So if I do MAC address filtering I
> > use the same one for both windows and ubuntu?
> > What exactly is less?  and once I type it the first time I stay in that
> > mode?
> >
> >
> >
>
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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp


00:10.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 16ef:9220
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        Memory at 40100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>


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