Wireless Problems

2008-01-18 Thread TARogue
The really weird part of this is the fact that wireless was working when we left to get my boy from school. After shopping in Concord we got back around 18.00 and now nothing I know can make it go again. /var/log/messages says this: Jan 18 07:05:03 newfear dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware

Re: Wireless Problems

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 01/18/2008 07:39 AM, TARogue wrote: First question: what is wmaster0? It's not from NetworkManager, but is probably created by the underlying driver for your wireless card (check ifconfig), which then creates eth0 or wifi0 or whatever. Second question: what does unknown hardware address

Re: Wireless Problems

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Chabot
TARogue wrote: First question: what is wmaster0? Second question: what does unknown hardware address type 801 mean? As others have pointed out, wmaster0 is likely an alias to the wifi interface. The error seems to be saying that the driver and the hardware aren't talking to eachother for

Re: Wireless Problems

2008-01-18 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:39 AM, TARogue wrote: The really weird part of this is the fact that wireless was working when we left to get my boy from school. After shopping in Concord we got back around 18.00 and now nothing I know can make it go again. /var/log/messages says this: Jan 18

Re: Friday afternoon hardware questions

2008-01-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 17, 2008 8:16 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, if only I knew why otherwise normally performing drives decided to start overheating. In addition to Bruce's great wisdom: Where they overheating as in measured temperature too high, or overheating as in more cooling made

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week

2008-01-18 Thread Bill Sconce
Yes, that's the time, and we have a commitment from Janet for fresh cookies. (Something seems to have happened to the ones for the December meeting. :) Agenda to follow. I hope it will include a debrief from the MerriLUG meeting, and the kudos which our own Kent Johnson undoubtedly received.