Question about Wireless (again)

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 04:55 -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote:
> 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.

What device is acting as DHCP server? Does it have enough addresses for
all the clients in your network?

Try an address other than 192.168.1.1 - this is probably the address of
the router in that network.

What do you see when you do "iwlist ath0 scanning"? Can you see the
access point? Do you see *other* access points; could it be that you are
inadvertently associating with the wrong access point?

What "public address and different subnet mask" are you being assigned?
If it's 169.something then you have the address you get when you get no
address :-)

Regards, K.

PS: Without further ado, whack your "friend" severely about the head and
shoulders with a clue stick.

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