Re: Wireless Setup Problem - Thanks

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:57:14PM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote:

From: Thomas H. George [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: Wireless Setup Problem

I installed a Debian system including Gnome 2.22.3 on my OLPC (One
Laptop per Child) laptop from a usb drive and tried to make a wireless
connection to our LAN.

After numerous tries (details below) I succeeded yesterday afternoon.

Today nothing works. When I put the cursor on the network icon the
message "manual network configuration" appears and when I click on the
icon the message "no network devices have been found" appears. If I
open a terminal and enter iwconfig everything is just I left it
yesterday.

A part of the problem is that our LAN uses static ip addresses not
dhcp.
Yesterday I tried iwconfig and ip commands without success. Finally,
in
/usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian I found I could edit
/etc/network/interfaces and add to the iface eth1 inet static stanza
the
lines

wireless-essid foo
wireless-mode ad-hoc

Immediately after I did this putting the cursor on the network icon
showed three signals - one for our lan and two for the neighbors. The
system connected to our lan and through the gateway to the internet.

As I said, today nothing works though iwconfig shows out essid and
mode
ad-hoc and Link Quality=100/100 Signal Level=0 dBm Noise Lever= -96
dBm.

What could have gone wrong?

I am guessing that you are using network-manager. I usually like
network-manager, but the one consistent problem I have had with
network-manager has been setting manual IP addresses. You may want to
consider installing WICD instead. I, and many others, have had great
luck with WICD.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php
Hope this helps!

Have fun!
~Stack~

Thanks, Stack, and thanks to the other who elaborated. You were so
right!

There is a debian package for lenny on the web site. I installed wicd
Monday night but then had to sign off to prepare for an all day meeting
Tuesday. This morning I brought up the system and - bingo - there was
the ethernet connection I had used for the download. I unplugged the
usb ethernet and within a minute wicd had brought up the wireless
connection. It just worked, no setup, no nothing. I couldn't of asked
for more.

Tom

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