My Wifi Woes

[Raquel]

Three or four weeks ago I bought my very first laptop, an HP
G70-246US.  After opening up the box I immediately replaced Windows
Vista with Ubuntu 8.10.  Everything was fantastic, except wireless
networking.  My wired network came up "automagically" and when I'd
move to another wired network, it "just worked".  The new laptop comes
with an Atheros AR928x.

I asked here and got no joy.  For 2 weeks I read everything I could
find in forums, lists, wikis, blogs and every help site I could in
that time.  Last night I found a hint and edited
my /etc/network/interfaces file.

I changed it from:
     auto lo
     iface lo inet loopback

and added:
     auto wlan0
     iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Once I did that, my new laptop found the neighbor's 2 wireless
networks.  Now I can go ahead and setup my new wireless router.

-- 
Raquel
http://www.byraquel.com
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