A little help with WiFi

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:15 -0500, Steve Kratz wrote:
> > Are you assigned an IP address? I find that while my wireless 
> > NIC comes up sometimes it fails to do dhcp.
> > 
> > Try "dhclient eth0"
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> 
> 
> Also, thought I'd mention the fact that I've had VERY sporadic results
> with the Ubuntu wireless settings manager. If you're trying to set up
> multiple profiles, may as well give up - configure it, then restart
> everything (I've sometimes had to reboot to get things working after
> wireless changes). Probably shouldn't have to do all that with Linux,
> but something doesn't initialize properly.

Yes, I had similar problems and I gave up. I installed wifi-radar which
does the job beautifully.

Regards,
Tony.
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