On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:18 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
Different driver may help here.Tony Godshall wrote: > > So, anyhow, the moral of the story is this: > > Don't be too quick to blame software. I'm not quite sure where that moral was to be found :-) After all, we've already agreed that there's a basic problem with the b44 - whether it's the driver software or the hardware is hard to say - but it's how the software deals with that that's causing my issues.
I always use /etc/network/interfaces. Have not had problems other the WPA-PSK wireless security not supported directly.> > PS: I used to use whereami too, but went back to a > config based on /network/interfaces and a little custom > mapping script. which, by the way, let me put a timeout > for the b44 to settle down. And it's based on > iputils-arping, which is lightning fast when it detects... >
> arping -D -f -c4 -w5 -I$iface $ip > > ...and works without coming up on the network with an ip > address (i.e. it's less disruptive). There's an arping test in Whereami, too, which I primarily use for exactly that reason. -- derek
