wireless, Broadcom & jaunty

[Derek Broughton]

Joep L. Blom wrote:

> I was the one who used 'service' already for ages.

Yes - I saw that in a later post, and wondered how I had thought Noop wrote 
it.  Anyway, thanks.

> Thanks for the suggestion that the rules are recreated when you remove
> it but that is not the problem in my opinion. In my former mail I showed
> that the wireless is asking for an IP-address but doesn't get a
> response. I wonder if it asks for an IPv6 address as the last line is
> "eth0 no IPv6 routers present" but where that comes from defeats me.

No, you don't "ask" for IPv6 addresses, they're generated automatically from 
your MAC address (if you look at the IPv6 address, you'll see it contains 
all the digits of the MAC address).

> The MAC-address in the .rules file came from the wireless router.

I don't think so.  The MAC address on _your_ interfaces, is either the 
physical address the manufacturer put on the hardware (which Linux _reads_ 
from the hardware) or an address you specify to override it (usually in 
/etc/network/interfaces, though I imagine there are other ways to do it).  
That address gets _sent_ to the router (actually, it goes out on every 
single ethernet packet) and the router may use it to assign a specific IP 
address, but the router doesn't send it back to your machine.