My Wifi Woes

[John Hubbard]

Raquel wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Cool. Is that really all that you did? I am a little surprised that 
there wasn't already an entry for your wireless (wlan0). You shouldn't 
have needed to remove your settings for the loopback divice (lo). Try 
adding that the loopback section back in and see if everything still 
works. Glad to hear that you got it working be sure to write down 
somewhere what you did so that if you ever reinstall you can get it back.

-- 
-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
                2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
        0b11000100 || !0b11000100
        0b11000100 || 0b00111011
               0b11111111
        255, that is the answer.