Well, I got the first part of my bug report correct. I was totally confused! I will document my error for others to benefit from (and at least get a good laugh).
This is my first hearing of something called WiMAX. The WiMAX address was the only number on the bottom of my computer that resembled a MAC address - which IT IS NOT. I have MAC address filtering set up on my router and mistakenly configured it with my WiMAX address. Since I did not want to reconfigure my router to perform my unencrypted connection test, I used my neighbor's unencrypted router to test against (which worked). It wasn't until I did "ifconfig" that I discovered what the real MAC (HWaddr) address for my machine was. I entered this HWaddr in my router's MAC address filter and am happy to report that WIFI on my Sony Vaio VPCF136FM is fully operational under Ubuntu 10.10. My system uses the Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (rev 5f) network controller. Sorry for the confusion. Mike -- Ubuntu 10.10 Beta: WIFI firmware not loading Sony Vaio VPCF136FM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
