"wifi-radar" wanted

gotmonkey ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Jul 6 13:01:49 UTC 2005


Ante Karamatiæ Wrote: 
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:12 -0400, gotmonkey wrote:

> 

> > I was surprised not to see eth0 listed for my ethernet adapter, but
> it

> > does list in lspci, so the hardware is being started. Why are there
> two

> > listings from my ath0?

> 

> You didn't use eth0 yet, so there isn't one in interfaces (this file
> is

> handeld, on Ubuntu, by network-admin). There is only one listing of

> ath0. One tells to handle ath0 by hotplug, one with informations about

> your wifi network, and, third, auto ath0 wich loads ath0 upon booting.

> 

> > I am going to try commenting out the auto ath0 and see how that
> works.

> 

> Yes, only that and you will be fine. You could've done that with GUI,

> but this way is much faster :)

> 

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I try not to do everything by gui, that way I will have a better
understanding how linux works. Besides, I have crashed xorg to many
times to be totally dependent on gui's. 



Should I have left the iface ath0 alone?


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gotmonkey




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