On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 08:43 -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 11/14/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Okay, folks, I can't figure this out: How do I use Ubuntu Edgy to create
> > a wireless network?
> >
> > I have a laptop. eth0 is wired and connected to my network. ifconfig
> > reports it as 192.168.1.3. I can ping, DNS, etc. from that laptop to
> > the outside world via 192.168.1.3.
> >
> > Run firestarter wizard. All device detected. Set internet to eth0.
> >
> > Enable internet connection sharing. Local area device eth1. Good.
> > Enable DHCP for local network. Create new DHCP configuration. Hand out
> > addresses from 10.0.2.2 to 10.0.2.100.
> >
> > Save and start firewall now.
> >
> > ifconfig -a reports eth1 is 10.0.2.1 with a mask of 255.255.255.0
> >
> > ping 10.0.2.1 works from the laptop.
> >
> > No wireless network appears.
> >
> > iwconfig lists eth1 as unassociated. ESSID of nds Nickname: "ipw2100"
> > Mode: managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
> >
> > Anybody have some advice?
>
> Confirm what I think you are trying to do: use the laptop as a
> wireless access point, connecting to the wired network 192.168.1.xxx
> and creating a wireless network 10.0.2.xxx,
> to be called up from some other wireless device.
>
> carl
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> carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
I just got my computer to recognize wireless access points under ubuntu
6.10, after I installed NetworkManager.
Then it was lots of try and error (and I didn't keep good enough notes
to reconstruct what I did), but I think I had to _not_ configure the
wireless network in the default place, namely
System->Administration->Networking (network-admin), which tells me
"wireless network not configured", while NetworkManager gives me an
"Active Connection Information", I'm connected to my wireless access
point, and
~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Classified"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point:
53:65:63:72:65:74
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm
Retry limit:15 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=85/100 Signal level=-47 dBm Noise level=-48 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:4543 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
I hope this makes more sense to you than it makes to me (I can't
reproduce the result in Fedora) ... probably "Managed" is a Bad Thing
for what you are trying to do.
If you're trying to do what Carl thinks, it's way over my head.
Christoph
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