A little help with WiFi

[Tony Arnold]

Thiago,

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:00 -0700, Thiago Robert wrote:

> I managed to get a stable connection (I'm using it right now)
> deactivating and then activating my wireless card.. I also downloaded
> wifi-radar but I didn't have that much luck with it. I think it may be
> conflicting with Ubuntu's built in support for wifi.

I have no probelm with wifi-radar conflicting on my system. But you do
need a card whose driver supports scanning. The Orinoco driver in Hoary
does not! I had to down load the latest copy and compile it.

> How can I turn off the wifi activation during boot? I've been using
> linux fore some time now but I'm new to debian-like distros..

I would edit /etc/network/interfaces. You should see a line 'auto eth1'
where eth1 is your wireless interface. Remove this line, or comment it
out.

Regards,
Tony.
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