Hi Dave, On 28/01/2008, at 1:09 PM, Dave Lazar wrote:
> Hi, > > I am still trying to figure out how to get avahi-browse on my > workstation to find the server on my network. I have just tested a > second workstation booting Ubuntu 7.10 (the same as my problem > machine) on the network and it sees the server services fine. The > difference is in the networking. The machine working is wired and > all the services discovered and visible via browsing show up tied to > eth0. My other non-working machine is wireless, uses wlan0 as the > wireless network connection via wicd. > > Is there some way to debug this issue? I have no firewall running on > either machine. For some reason, my wireless laptop running Ubuntu > 7.10 just refuses to discover any outside network services. I can > browse the server using Samba OK.. SSH... just not avahi??? > > Comparing the avahi-daemon.conf files - they are the same. avahi- > daemon is running on both. The workstation with wired eth0 and DHCP > works, the laptop with wireless (via Wicd) and wlan0 and DHCP > refuses to browse.... It is a very common problem for the chipset not to support multicast properly causing this problem. Please try a different wireless card (perhaps a USB one, etc) and this problem will likely go away. There isn't really anything you can do about this unless you fix the hardware/driver. Trent _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
