wifi wEirdneSs hardy heron on everex cloudbook

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Tony Baldwin <photodharma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Mohler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Tony Baldwin <photodharma at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just confused, because, as far as wifi connecting goes, it seems
>>> fickle and behaves oddly, as I see it.
>>
>> What does 'sudo iptables -L' give back?  Just a shot in the dark...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target      prot opt source         destination
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target      prot opt source         destination
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target      prot opt source         destination
>
>
> That's all she wrote.
> I know nothing of firewalls and iptables, so that might as well be
> Mandarin (which I don't speak) to me.

Well, I guess we can rule out a firewall - that means that there is no
iptable filtering going on...

Not sure where to look next.  Did you uninstall the Gnome stuff?  If
not, I would try connecting with NM (default applet) and see if you
get the same behavior.  If not, maybe you need to pass some extra
options to iwconfig and/or dhclient?

Chris