I installed a Debian system including Gnome 2.22.3 on my OLPC (One Laptop per Child) laptop from a usb drive and tried to make a wireless connection to our LAN.
After numerous tries (details below) I succeeded yesterday afternoon. Today nothing works. When I put the cursor on the network icon the message "manual network configuration" appears and when I click on the icon the message "no network devices have been found" appears. If I open a terminal and enter iwconfig everything is just I left it yesterday. A part of the problem is that our LAN uses static ip addresses not dhcp. Yesterday I tried iwconfig and ip commands without success. Finally, in /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian I found I could edit /etc/network/interfaces and add to the iface eth1 inet static stanza the lines wireless-essid foo wireless-mode ad-hoc Immediately after I did this putting the cursor on the network icon showed three signals - one for our lan and two for the neighbors. The system connected to our lan and through the gateway to the internet. As I said, today nothing works though iwconfig shows out essid and mode ad-hoc and Link Quality=100/100 Signal Level=0 dBm Noise Lever= -96 dBm. What could have gone wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org