On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:52:14PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:44 +1000, David wrote: > > >From a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary, specifying wireless for my net > > connection, wireless fails to connect. Signal is NOT a problem. > > You should make sure that you have the required kernel module > in /etc/modules so that it is loaded at boot time. > > I found that my Centrino 2100 (module: ipw2100) did not work with the > Ubuntu installer (no I forgot to file a bug :-(. > > I manually set it up in /etc/network/interfaces like: > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > creates eth1 > name Wireless LAN > pre-up modprobe ipw2100 ifname=eth1 > pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [1] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [2] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [3] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > pre-up iwconfig eth1 key [4] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > pre-up iwconfig eth1 nick "name" > pre-up iwconfig eth1 power off > wireless_mode Managed > wireless_nick name > down modprobe -r ipw2100 > wireless-essid ESSIDNAME > wireless-key open [2] > > This is more the Debian way than the Ubuntu way I guess. > > As long as you ensure that the module is loaded, it should show up in > the networking GUI OK.
It DOES show up in the gui. It just does this wierd behaviour where it will only work once the ethernet has been brought up. See my previous post about faking an ethernet connection to force it to work. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
