On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Bill Barry wrote: > Odd, usually it knows the MAC address, you don't have to type it in, you > have to type in the IP address. But if you have to type in the MAC > address, some interfaces want colons between the hex characters, some > don't? But this is beside the point, if it's not working with the address > it was given, then switching over to static will not make any difference.
Bill, It knows the MAC address, but if I want to have the dhcp assign a specific IP address to a specific machine it wants the MAC/IP address pair entered. Yes, I do enter it with colons; perhaps that's how the AP displays them while not wanting the colons entered. No instructions when I hover the cursor over that part of the screen. I'll try without colons tomorrow. > Be careful that you don't have too many things trying to control the > network, for instance you mentioned that the system is asking for keys for > your neighbors wifi, but not yours and you also implied that you manually > configured your key. Maybe you should remove the manual configuration and > then it will ask for yours also. The same with /etc/network/interfaces. If > you put configurations in there for a device then network-manager will > ignore that device. Remove those and restart network-manager and things > might work as expected. I've learned this about the ubuntus when trying to get that machine to recognize an Ethernet connection when the cat5 cable is plugged in. Never did get this working. I took out all the /etc/network/interfaces information but that made no difference. Today I removed /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, too. What puzzles me is how the Toshiba can ping the gateway router, server, and other portable but not be able to pass through the router to the 'Net. Nothing changed on the Netgear VFS-318 since it last worked with that laptop. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
