Feisty Meta physics

[Carl Spitzer]

Sorry for the cut and paste my receiving of messages is getting hosed on
a daily basis though this email account works fine.  So just in case
send it off list also.



Re: Feisty Meta physics
Click to flag this post by Felipe Figueiredo-2 No 



On Nov 1, 2007 4:26 PM, Carl Spitzer <cwsiv at ...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:08 -0200, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:


> > Carl, please answer Mario's question: how do you determine that it
recognized the wireless connection as wired?
>
> When I clicked the manager icon in the upper right it shows the DLink
> 120R as a wired connection.  But an Obertron(sp?) PCMIA is seen as
> wireless and works.
>
> However the Dlink worked when tested on a P4 using SuSE so it could
> still be either a config error, most likely, or the hardware, less
> likely.
>
> I am quite betwixt and between here.

Great, now we're getting somewhere. Let's forget, for a while, the
abstract discussion about interfaces names (sorry, guys ;)).

Can you please copy and paste the contents of the file
/etc/network/interfaces here? This is probably some mistake there.

Also, Carl can you test if booting the LiveCD makes it work properly
out of the box?  

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp




iface wlan0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0

iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid Wireless

auto eth0







 

according to this there are no linux drivers and the other links goto
pdf so even windows drivers are missing.
http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DWL%2D120e

according to ths device its revsion R but the device I have is pictured
as DWL 120E
http://support.dlink.com/products/revision.asp?productId=DWL-120



CWSIV