Thanks for the summary, Damian! This was most helpful and gave me a much
better understanding of the situation than I got from reading my notes.
Chris.
2008/11/4 Damian Brasher <lug@???>
> Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
>
> > I was a little disappointed that no-one could tell me why I'm having so
> > much
> > trouble getting wireless networking going on my machine (ThinkPad X30
> with
> > Etch) but I'm grateful to those who offered help.
> >
> If I remember correctly we found out the Orinoco driver for a prism2 card
> was loaded properly but the network settings for the card were not
> correct. You were allocated an IPv6 address and that was partly as
> expected as the network here supports IPv6 I believe but if it was not a
> network allocation over wireless (more likely) then Debian was assigning
> an IPv6 address by default.
>
> This led me to think that you network configuration was at fault and the
> card not properly setup, I was expecting something like this in:
>
> /etc/network
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>
> however your wlan card was named something different to wlan0 ? If my
> memory serves me right. So this may have been a modules conf issue...
>
> Something more to go on perhaps, over to Surrey perhaps:)
>
> -- Damian
>
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