Hi All,
I'm on my travels again; this time on a walking break in North
Yorkshire. My digs provides free Wi-Fi so on the first evening, I
successfully connected using the WEP key supplied by the landlord. The
following morning, Wi-Fi connected as expected, but there was no path to
the internet. When I queried this, the landlord said it was working for
him and since I was off out, I didn't try any more. However, it
connected and worked fine yesterday evening.
Today was almost a replica of yesterday, except that in desperation this
evening, I deleted the connection from the list, re-entered the key and
it worked!
So how come? If I'm getting a connection reported, but no path to the
internet. I presume that this is something to do with DHCP; I'm
certainly not getting an IP address. Why though? And why does it work
some times and not others. I can't see how it can be the WEP key since
it worked without interference yesterday evening.
I tried ifconfig wlan1 up & down and that had no effect whatsoever. Is
there anything else that might get it up without the drastic measure of
deleting the connection?
I'm using my netbook with Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04.
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Terry
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