newbie: getting wireless going on hardy

[jeffrey.berger at mac.com]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:

> 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

Changed already. What's more, I now know what bottom/top-posting  
is! ;-) I thought you meant don't launch a new topic within an  
existing thread.

-J