Ralph Shumaker wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Do you have a live-CD that you could try running the laptop from, to see
if that makes any difference?
Yeah, I have Knoppix DVD fixated 2008-03-26. I'm currently using it
to perform a memtest on another laptop which came to me complaining of
freezing up (WhenDoze). Fortunately, memtest is not selfish and
promptly surrendered the DVD upon request.
That's interesting. When I booted up on Knoppix and ran ifconfig, I
noticed that eth1 had an IPv4 address, something like 192.168.0.25 or
the like. That suggested to me that I was wirelessly logged into
someone's network. So I tried surfing the web. I went to the Knoppix
home page, CraigsList, and YouTube.
I rebooted on Fedora 9, but couldn't access the web from there. I
didn't have an IPv4 address. I did ifdown eth1, which made it disappear
from the ifconfig list but not from the iwconfig list. Then I did ifup
eth1. But eth1 wouldn't come back up, saying:
Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present. Check
cable?
But when Fedora 9 boots up, ifconfig lists it.
Why would Knoppix activate it on someone's AP, but not Fedora?
I'm going to go back to Knoppix. I'll let it run overnight, connected
(but not using the /borrowed/ network connection), and see if I get any
ipw2200 error messages in dmesg.
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