if my wireless lan works - i will officially switch

[Loptr Chaote]

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.
> 

Have you configured the interface to give it an IP-address?
If not, then you need to do one of two things, depending on if your
router supports DHCP..

If it does support DHCP, simply enter

sudo dhclient eth0

on the command-line and within a minute it should announce that it has
been assigned an IP-address.

If you're router does not support DHCP, you need to manually configure
your interface.

I make the following assumptions:
* You run a local network with standard 192.168.0.0/16 B-class subnet
* You're router/gateway has IP 192.168.0.1
* The IP-adress 192.168.0.99 is not in use and will be assigned to your laptop

Now type the following two commands:

sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.99
sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1

You can now try to ping your gateway, 192.168.0.1, to see if you get
any response.

-L.C

PS. I'm sorry, but up until now all my replies to this list seems to
have gone to the private sender, rather than to the actual list. Isn't
there a Reply-To set to ubuntu-users in the header of the mailing list
mails?