perhaps in my early moments of running hardy i ran some gnome or xfce desktop tool which configured my wireless somehow, and perhaps simply copying the /etc/network/interfaces to intrepid is skipping some pertinent step? i just looked in xfce4 and couldn't find any tool for configuring wireless. is there one? what is the name (package) for either the xfce or the gnome tool? tia, -g On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:25 AM, greg wm <tclugl at whitleymott.net> wrote: > my rtl8180 wireless pcmcia in my thinkpad works great in hardy. my > /etc/network/interfaces contains > >> auto wlan0 >> iface wlan0 inet dhcp >> wireless-essid wm >> wireless-key foobar >> > and it comes right up on bootup. i dropped the same > /etc/network/interfaces into intrepid (2.6.27-15-generic), but no luck. > might there be something else i need to do? the rtl8180 modules load, but > no route nor ipaddress gets set. similarly in centos5.4 > (2.6.18-164.2.1.el5) the rtl8180 modules load, but here i *do* get a route > and ipaddress, it completes DHCP but then can't ping the gateway or anything > except itself, and tho the 'Act' light on the card is flashing, the 'Link' > light is dark. the lights are the same for intrepid. in hardy, where it > works, the 'Link' light is lit. > > the only relevant /var/log/messages line, in intrepid: > kernel: [ 681.206785] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready > > in centos5.4: > avahi-daemon[2610]: Registering new address record for 192.168.0.71 on > wlan0. > > i suspect the hardy driver is good and the others deficient, but i dunno. > where would i look to compare driver versions? any other ideas? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091104/0c343ab6/attachment.htm