Hi I have got some troubles getting a nice static ip adress on my ubuntu box which communicate thru my wlan0 interface. I am following the steps for setting up my own isp from the following page http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06_p3 I changed the interfaces file like this (at the moment my dynamic adress is as well 192.168.1.7) <pre># The primary network interface auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 192.168.1.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1</pre>Then I do: /etc/init.d/networking restart <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED" content="20050905;21185400"><meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="stephanv"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20060909;19305300"> <style type="text/css">  </style> <pre style="margin-bottom: 0.5cm;"><tt> * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3</tt> <tt>Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.</tt> <tt>All rights reserved.</tt> <tt>For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP</tt> <tt>Listening on LPF/eth0/00:02:a5:35:61:d5</tt> <tt>Sending on LPF/eth0/00:02:a5:35:61:d5</tt> <tt>Sending on Socket/fallback</tt> <tt>DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67</tt> <tt>Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3</tt> <tt>Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.</tt> <tt>All rights reserved.</tt> <tt>For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP</tt> <tt>Listening on LPF/eth0/00:02:a5:35:61:d5</tt> <tt>Sending on LPF/eth0/00:02:a5:35:61:d5</tt> <tt>Sending on Socket/fallback</tt> <tt>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5</tt> <tt>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9</tt> <tt>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7</tt> <tt>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13</tt> <tt>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20</tt> <tt>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7</tt> <tt>No DHCPOFFERS received.</tt> <tt>No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.</tt> <tt>SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable</tt> <tt>Failed to bring up wlan0.</tt></pre> So it seems that there are problems with this and by the way after doing this my connection is gone as well. So what should be the right way to get it done? Cheers, Stephan <hr size=1>On Yahoo!7 <a href="http://au.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tag/fuelprice/**http%3A%2F%2Fau.maps.yahoo.com%2Ffuelwatch%2F">Fuel Price Watch - Find and map the cheapest petrol prices in Australia </a>