On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:

>   The upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 on the laptop broke the networking
> capability. The laptop connects to the LAN via a wireless card and I cannot
> get it recognized and the network started.
>
>   In /etc/networking/interfaces I see that there are three defined
> interfaces:
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> auto eth0
>
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> auto eth1
>
> iface eth2 inet dhcp
> auto eth2
>
>   eth1 is supposed to be the wireless one; all three have static
> information
> commented out.
>
>   I tried 'ifconfig eth(n) up' without success. I also tried
> '/etc/init.d/networking start' without success. Obviously, I'm missing
> something simple here and would very much appreciate a clue stick. I need
> to
> get the network up so I can upgrade the system to 9.04, re-learn how to fix
> the networking if it breaks again, and return the machine to my wife so I
> can get back to my work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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/sbin/iwconfig eth{$} essid "your ssid" channel auto key $key

dhcpcd $eth{$}

should bring it up but that's the manual ghetto way of doing it.

Man iwconfig will give you all the options you might need.

Drew-
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