&(#%$!@} wireless

[Andrew Farris]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 06:53 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 September 2009 11:00:23 pm Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > Tried posting this on the local LUG list with spotty results so I'll
> > try here.
> >
> > Sorry for the length of this.
> >
> > After a looooong losing fight trying to get wireless working on my Dell
> > Latitude laptop running Debian Lenny I gave up and hard wired the laptop
> > and the desktop to the Linksys WRT54GL router. Recently I replaced Lenny
> > with Ubuntu Hardy. When I fired it up the first thing I saw was that
> > Network Manager detected the wireless network, which was something Lenny
> > running Network Manager or wicd didn't. I could connect and access the
> > internet with no trouble. This bliss ensued for a few weeks. Tonight, NM
> > stopped detecting the network, iwconfig showed no eth1. Out of curiosity
> > I installed wicd. It detected the network and when I tried to connect
> > the authentication was validated but the IP wasn't obtained.
[snip the length of this :)]
> 
> If you can borrow another router for a test, do that.  I never had much luck 
> with longevity on a Linksys however, and six months was my longest on the 
> second one.  First one failed in four.  Both were WRT54GL routers and both 
> failed in the manner you described.

I got a faulty netgear router once that would do something like this
occasionally. Could see the wireless, could /attempt/ to connect to the
wireless, and it would either not connect, or connect and not assign an
IP. 

In my case, rebooting the router (un-plug, wait 20 seconds, plug in)
helped. Try it, and see if that helps?


-- 
Andrew
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