network device confusion with usb wireless (wlan-ng)

[Matt Price]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:28:07PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> On Jan 27, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> >hi folks,
> >
> >running on dapper with a self-rolled kernel, on ppowerpc (blue &white
> >g3).
> >
> >having trouble with the linux-wlan-ng drivers and an ashton airdash  
> >usb

> > However, I don't see a way to get internal programs to use and
> >recognize wlan0.  For instance, if I deactivate eth0 in network- 
> >admins,
> >firefox won't load anything, and I can no longer ping outfrom the
> >machine.  

> >here's
> >whatI wantto have happen:
> >
> >- eth0 stay disabled.
> >-wlan0 become default inet interface for all outgoing & incoming
> >connections.
> >
> >I don't really care whether this behaviour is configurablethrough the
> >gnome network interface or not, but I would like to have it work
> >reliably.
> >
> >I'm happy to provide moredetail if anyone thinks that'll help.
> >
> 
> If you don't want eth0 to ever be used, edit /etc/network/interfaces  
> and comment-out or remove all reference to it.  It took me a while to  
> get my wirelesss card working and I never did find the right  
> incantation to set it up with a static IP and stuck with DHCP (since  
> it is on a server, I configured my router to always assign the same  
> IP to its MAC address so I could enable forwarding to that box).  I  

Eventually I would liketo dothis.  however for the moment I'm still
trying to get desktop-level programs (and even ping!) to realize that
the wireless hardware exists.  I've used a couple of other wireless
cards on other computers and, while sometimes module compilation &
such have been difficult, I'venever had this funny half-working state,
where the thing clearly works for INCOMING bits (at least sometimes)
but I can't seem to route OUTGOING bits to it.

So as soon as I get that issue ironed out I will definitely take your
advice.

matt

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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
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