newbie: getting wireless going on hardy

[Derek Broughton]

jeffrey.berger at mac.com wrote:

> Will do. And thanks Derek!
> -J
> 
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 5:19 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 08/14/2008 01:52 PM, jeffrey.berger at mac.com wrote:
>>> Output from hostname -f is
>>> localhost
>>>
>>> In the interim, 106 updates became available. I downloaded (wired)
>>> and
>>> installed them. When I restarted, the Update Manager (if that's the
>>> name of one of the icons in the right upper panel) announced that a
>>> driver for the wireless card had become available.
>>>
>>> I used Device Manager to install the new driver. This required
>>> downloading and running an fwcutter. All of this was handled
>>> automagically.
>>>
>>> I just restarted again and (hooray!) the connected light on my
>>> wireless card is lit for the 1st time running Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> And I'm connected!
>>>
>>> And no authentication issues either.
>>
>> Cool! 

Very.  I'd _guess_ that you were running on old firmware

>> Now change /etc/hosts as Derek pointed out & you should be 
>> good to
>> go. Sorry that I missed this when I looked at your /etc/hosts
>> previously.

It's not really a big deal - I don't think it can cause any real issues,
just that you can only hang one IP on an interface (and since all 127.x.x.x
addresses map to the same one, anyway, they're _logically_ going to be a
single address).
-- 
derek