Question about Wireless (again)

[Peter Spotts]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 04:55 -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I really hate to bug the list with this again but the solution I used
> last time for this problem didn't work this time and I've been
> Googleing for over 3 hours and can't find an answer. I do hope someone
> look past my newbiness and take time to help me out.
> 
> I have an Acer Aspire 5100 notebook and I had Ubuntu 7.10 working
> absolutely fine on it earlier tonight. A friend of mine thought it
> would be funny to reinstall Windows on the system so he backed up my
> files and when I got home I had a shiny new XP system waiting on me.
> Of course, I immediately pulled out my CD and reinstalled Ubuntu. Now,
> the wireless won't work.
> 
> Last time, all I had to do as type 'iwconfig' to find my wireless card
> was configured as ath0 (it is again now). Then I simply typed 'sudo
> ifconfig ath0' to bring the interface up and connect to my wireless
> network. My network has no protection as I want to run an open AP for
> everyone.
> 
> Tonight, the laptop simply would not connect to the router. Other PC's
> were connected so I know the router is accepting connections. I am
> using the 192.168.1.X addressing scheme but for some reason this
> laptop is being assigned a public address and different subnet mask
> than the rest of my network. When I manually configured the interface
> using 'sudo ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up' it
> looked like the if came up but there was no entry in my routers dhcp
> clients table and I still didn't have internet access.
> 
> I am sitting her absolutely pulling my hair out. I KNOW there is
> something simple I'm missing. Can anyone lend me a hand to figure out
> what?
> 
> Thanks!
> Anthony
> 

Are you sure that shouldn't be ifup ath0?

Pete

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