On Monday 19 December 2005 14:23, Rony Bill wrote: > > I know about the loopback localhost 127.0.0.1 thing. I even use it in > the /etc/hosts file to cut out bad and ad websites. I am only > reporting what I saw. There was a network icon in the task bar with > active tx/rx connection. On right clicking it, it had the name 'lo'. > I was expecting eth0 but that was not the case. We did not go to > ifconfig as we were worried about security or intrusion so we simply > rebooted. It had already done 300kbytes. It was a Ubuntu 5.10 live > CD. If anyone else has a lappy with the same card, they can try this > cd. The client is in imp/ex and his data was too precious to take any > risks. >
Something was surely fishy. Instead of relying on the GUI, you should've checked out the ip / mac address of the wireless interface. If it is lo then there is no way the wifi card was active. As I always stress, never believe the GUIs always use the command line to verify whether the GUI is telling you the truth or lying :P -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
