Vista kills Ubuntu wireless

[Xandros Pilosa]

NoOp pravi:
--snip--
> 
> If that is the case, rather than putting in the reversed MAC address,
> you can check/modify it here:
> 
> $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> 
> Or simply:
> 
> $ sudo mv /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.old
> 
> and reboot & let it regenerate itself. Note: I prefer to rename (mv) the
> file rather than delete it just in case...

Thanks for the pointer Gary.
If I remember correctly in my case (I was allowed to play with hp tx1350 
notebook for short time) it did not help much.
Mac was the same on every reboot. It changed just occasionally and only 
when resuming from STR/hibernation. Iface name did not change and 
network-manager did fire it up, but was unable to authenticate with the 
router (mac filtering).
> 
> Issues with this:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/208103
> [/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file needed to be regenerated
> to be able to use wireless after suspend (iwl3945)]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/329106
> [upgrading to Jaunty renamed eth0 to eth1]
> etc.
It was more like:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/175333/comments/12

Concerning the problem of OP Mark:
it was just a suggestion and reminder for some other traps to look for. 
I would certainly compare the router listings of hostname/mac 
combination of access from vista against Ubuntu, especially because you 
wrote:
> The short story is that it sees the wireless router, it authenticates, but it can't get an IP address. 
> Same story when trying to connect to a neighbors unsecured router. --snip--

Regards