Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>   
>> Mathew Moore suggested I use wicd-curses.
>>
>> So I did; found the ACUWireless node; tried pressing "c" to connect;
>> nothing happened; then tried "C", and the machine froze up again.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Wait, wait. The machine came back to life after a few minutes.
>
> But still, no indication of being connected wirelessly:
>
>
> westk@evoljasen:~$ sudo ifconfig
>
>
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:f8:29:b5:96 
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:108 (108.0 B)
>
> wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
> 00-18-F8-29-B5-96-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
>           UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
>   

After a couple of reboots, and after running wicd-client from the actual
machine instead of over ssh, the machine did not lock up; it did see the
various ACUWireless networks, but when I tried clicking on the first
one, it thought for a minute or two, then reported "Connection failed:
Unable to get IP Address".

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