Question about Wireless (again)

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Tue Dec 4 11:22:49 UTC 2007


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.

For a WLAN the IP settings alone are not enough. Did you configure the 
SSID and password for your wireless network?


Nils




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