<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:40:18 -0500 From: Matt Price <<a href="mailto:matt.price@utoronto.ca"> matt.price@utoronto.ca</a>> Subject: Re: network device confusion with usb wireless (wlan-ng) To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:20060128054018.GA9511@utoronto.ca">20060128054018.GA9511@utoronto.ca</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > On Jan 27, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Matt Price wrote: > > >hi folks, > > > >running on dapper with a self-rolled kernel, on ppowerpc (blue &white > >g3). > > > >having trouble with the linux-wlan-ng drivers and an ashton airdash > >usb > > However, I don't see a way to get internal programs to use and > >recognize wlan0. For instance, if I deactivate eth0 in network- > >admins, > >firefox won't load anything, and I can no longer ping outfrom the > >machine. > >here's > >whatI wantto have happen: > > > >- eth0 stay disabled. > >-wlan0 become default inet interface for all outgoing & incoming > >connections. > > > >I don't really care whether this behaviour is configurablethrough the > >gnome network interface or not, but I would like to have it work > >reliably. > > > >I'm happy to provide moredetail if anyone thinks that'll help. > > </blockquote></div>Hi Matt! After a "sudo -s" (and password of course) in a terminal what say: ifconfig -a iwconfig iptables -L route ??????