Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?
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
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0d:56:2c:5e:d6
inet addr:150.252.12.59 Bcast:150.252.15.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:fe2c:5ed6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2407 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1514585 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:1717887 (1.6 MiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1112 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1112 (1.0 KiB)
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)
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