Finding my WLAN IP address.

[Raseel Bhagat]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>          Interrupt:22
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:DE:98:C7:34
>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:92 dropped:4554 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:11343827 (10.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2090090 (1.9 MiB)
>          Interrupt:16 Memory:efcff000-efcfffff
>
> eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
>          inet addr:169.254.8.89  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          Interrupt:22
>
>
> feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ iwconfig
> l
>
> eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency=nan kHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm
>          Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:4600   Missed beacon:0
>
> feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>          Interrupt:22
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:DE:98:C7:34
>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:92 dropped:4783 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:11343827 (10.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2090090 (1.9 MiB)
>          Interrupt:16 Memory:efcff000-efcfffff
>
> eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:C5:C8:13:D1
>          inet addr:169.254.8.89  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          Interrupt:22
>
>
>From your iwconfig output, it seems that you are not connected to any  AP.
So, it's not possible that you are connected to the Internet via the
wireless interface.

But, I do not see any IP on your eth0 interface as well, which is strange.

Can you do a ping (or tracepath as suggested earlier) and route -n to see
how your system is sending packets.

Thanks,
Raseel
http://www.raseel.in
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