wireless, Broadcom & jaunty

[Joep L. Blom]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Joep L. Blom wrote:
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>> Derek Broughton wrote:
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> No, this is the avahi-daemon (zeroconfig).  IF you don't get a dhcp address 
> before dhclient times out, avahi kicks in and gives you a private IP that 
> makes it possible for other systems on your LAN to see you.
Well, again something learned but I assume it's hard-coded in avahi.
> 
> 
> Well, no it isn't.  I mean, I'm sure it didn't get any, but it means your 
> router is either not listening, or your NIC is not talking, or both of those 
> are happening but your NIC isn't _hearing_ a response.  None of those are 
> good.
I agree. Therefore I tried with Wireshark (on another system) to look at 
the packets but I don't see any DHCPDISCOVER packets. I will look into 
it more.
> 
> I would consider that not a good reason :-)  But in any case, it doesn't 
> appear relevant.  I was concerned that wicd didn't seem to be initiating 
> dhclient, but if dhclient doesn't work from the command line anyway, the 
> problem doesn't seem to be with wicd.
> 
> 
> As I said, I have no problem recommending it in the cases where NM isn't 
> working, but the ubuntu development work goes into NM, so that's the 
> baseline to test.  I'd still like to see what happens with Network manager, 
> but I really don't think that's the problem.
I will see too. At this moment I have NM on another system and there its 
working OK.
> 
> I'm still concerned about the device showing up on eth0.  What's in your 
> /etc/network/interfaces?
> 
Well, Interfaces has:
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth1 inet dhcp

iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
wireless-essid nwhq_wireless

auto eth1

auto eth0

So this looks perfectly normal to me.

I think it is something trivial but I still don't know what. And the 
laptop soesn't have a switch to turn wireless off (!) which I have on 
another laptop and it's very annoying as the switch inadvertently is 
pressen when you put this laptop in your lap (!).
Hope I will find the solution shortly.
Joep