Wireless - Was [Re: DSL]

[John Dangler]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 02:28 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> John Dangler wrote:
> > -----------------
> > wireless config in System ->Networks:
> > (profile = office_wireless, which is eth0: inactive, eth1: active)
> > 
> > Network Name: (ESSID): mgj_ventures
> > Key type: Hexadecimal
> > WEP Key:
> > 
> > Connection Settings:
> > Configuration: Static IP Address
> > IP Address: 192.168.2.38
> > Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
> > Gateway address: 192.168.2.1
> > 
> > DSL Modem IP: 192.168.1.1
> > Router IP: 192.168.1.2
> > Wireless Router IP: 102.168.2.1
> > 
> > The Router is enabled for Static IP addresses (I have an XP box with a
> > USB54G adapter that works fine, and is on static)
> 
> That network's weird, I think.  You have a static IP of 192.168.2.38,
> and a subnet of 255.255.255.0 .  All good so far.  But then you say your
> wireless router has an IP of 102.168.2.1 .  Is that a typo, because
> that's not a standard internal address?  Anyway, your gateway address
> should match the wireless router IP.  If that really is your wireless
> router address, I think you should change the static IP to 102.168.2.38
> and the gateway to 102.168.2.1 .
Why 102?  The internal net is 192...
> 
> > The only part that I found suspect is that the router is using channel 6
> > in its config, and iwconfig reports channel 0.  If that's the problem,
> > how can I tell iwconfig to use the same channel?
> 
> I should clarify that my wireless card doesn't have a libre driver, so
> I'm not using wireless on (K)ubuntu myself.
> 
> Apparently:
> 
> iwconfig eth1 essid mgj_ventures channel 6 key BADF00D
> 
> (BADFOOD should be replaced with your key) does it though.

iwconfig eth1 essid mgj_ventures channel 6 - returns
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency (8B04)L
SET failed on device eth1; Operation not supported

(I have the keys turned off in the router at the moment)



> Matthew Flaschen
>