network device confusion with usb wireless (wlan-ng)

[Tod Merley]

>
>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:40:18 -0500
> From: Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: network device confusion with usb wireless (wlan-ng)
> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <20060128054018.GA9511 at utoronto.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> > 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.
> > >
>
Hi Matt!

After a "sudo -s" (and password of course) in a terminal what say:

ifconfig -a

iwconfig

iptables -L

route

??????
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20060128/711f32c4/attachment.html>