if my wireless lan works - i will officially switch

[S.Tux]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:45:03 +0300, S.Tux <str.tux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:26:49 +0300, S.Tux <str.tux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > There are no less than three workarounds documented in the bug.  The
> > > preferred one is acpi_irq_isa=7.
> 
> Okei. I made it work someway and I'm almost there...
> 
> I added acpi_irq_isa=7 in my boot option; sound works, great! and eth0
> my wireless interface now detected and seems OK.
> 
> My only problem now is when I could't ping my other machine.

First of all I want to summarize the results of my endeavor:

I posted for help to make my wireless connection works.
I added acpi_irqI_isa=7 in boot options and what happens is my sound
works and my eth0 (wireless interface) detected. big thanks for this.

now, my problem is how to successfully connect my Ubuntu box to XP
(soon to be Ubuntu as well) Internet Gateway?

Here's a simple description:

My XP gateway having an IP address of 192.168.0.1. It is connected
directly to Internet.
My Ubuntu notebook is having a wireless interface with IP address of
192.168.0.2. This notebook until is using a dual boot with XP and
Ubuntu. In XP wireless connection is perfect. While in Ubuntu until
now still not properly configured.

Running under Ubuntu here's my ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:F1:48:8E:96  
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe48:8e96/64 Scope:Link
          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:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd000 Memory:fcffe000-fcffefff 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:BF:36:23  
          inet addr:10.10.1.14  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:febf:3623/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:3402 (3.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x3000 

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:8367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:612225 (597.8 KiB)  TX bytes:612225 (597.8 KiB)

Note that eth0 is my wireless interface.


Running iwconfig:
eth0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"strXnet"  Nickname:"ipw2100"
          Mode:Managed  Channel:1  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          Bit Rate=0kb/s   Tx-Power=32 dBm   
          Retry:on   RTS thr=2304 B   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:158
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


Note that strXnet is also the ESSID in my XP box. But I'm not so sure
how to specify in Ubuntu that I'm using Ad-hoc (peer-to-peer) mode.
Maybe this is the missing configuration that I need to configure. Also
there is no encryption and authentication in this connection. It could
be a factor that I need to configure?

running ping command in Ubuntu (192.168.0.2) to ping my XP (192.168.0.1):

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2999ms
, pipe 3


My dear Ubuntu List, please guide me as I'm very desperate to make
this work in Ubuntu. I really love Ubuntu and I don't want a dual boot
with XP.

Please bear with me if my problem is not so important in your point of
view but really so so so important milestone with me as a new Linux
user as a whole.

I really appreciate this wonderful Ubuntu community.

str