Re: [Haifux] A question on Ubuntu 6.0.6 - Edimax EW-7108 hangs network service
You seem to have missed the original point of Asaf's message. Before I continue - it's Ubuntu. With three U's. Not Ubunto, or anything else. You don't see anyone talking about 'Susa' or 'Mandrek' or 'Slackerware'. You seem to be quite disrepectful of this distribution, but please... Furthermore, he did try to use the relevant commandline utilities (iwconfig). pppd is irrelevant, and only used for dial-up or DSL connections. Now, to attempt and answer the original question: The Technion's 'registration' system doesn't operate on your computer. All it does is register your MAC address. This is why you can do it as an unpriveleged user. It is not clear why they demand a restart - perhaps some kind of measure against MAC spoofing. It works without a restart, anyway. I don't know what's causing your current problem though. If I understand correctly - the problem is that the machine hangs if you boot with the wireless card connected, but if you connect the wireless card afterwards, everything works fine. Sounds like a bug worth submitting :( On 7/17/06, yakoub abaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asaf Cohen wrote: Hi all, I hope I am not troubling the readers of this mailing list, but after a few nights of trying all kinds of work-arounds I was told this is the place to ask for help. After a lot of searching, I bought the Edimax EW-7108PCg wireless card. It should have worked 100% on linux. Indeed, when I first inserted it and booted up the system I saw the activity light on the card blinking, all looked well, I saw that the rt2500 was loaded, and even manged to connect to a network - the link light turned on, the dhcp request was answered by the network, I got an IP an DNS entries - all looked great. The Technion network required MAC authentication: it identified the MAC address of my card, asked me for my password (not a network password, just a one confirming I am a student in the Technion) and I was told that registration for the network is complete, and I have to restart my computer. When restarting, the lights on the card did not blink, there was no activity at all, as if the card is dead. Moreover, the card somehow made the whole networking services get stuck - I cannot open system-networking, kill or restart the dhclient, issue iwconfig, connect using my ethernet - nothing. The computer is 90% stuck. It is needless to say that if I reboot without the wireless card everything is working well. Even if I boot from a live CD WITH the wireless card -all is well, the card is identified and active... (so the cards works on Ubuntu, after all it is an pen driver) It seams like something in my network configuration/services was changed after first connecting successfully to the Technion wireless network and ever since plugging in the wireless card (or booting up when it is inside) makes the whole system get stuck. Any ideas? just one idea : automated graphical administration programs in linux are still very weak and troublesome they are not an alternative to learn how to do things manually by running daemons from console my advise is to forget system-networking and learn about pppd or whatever is relevant for your connection i know little about networking but my best guess is some script in /etc/rc.d in configured badly try to run your distribution's initial network setup scripts in slackware it is simply netconfig but ubunto must have very stupidly made the user unaware of that script by doing the initial setup automatically Thanks a lot!!! Asaf. -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To necessity... and beyond! Ohad Lutzky -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Haifux] A question on Ubuntu 6.0.6 - Edimax EW-7108 hangs network service
Hi all, I hope I am not "troubling" the readers of this mailing list, but after a few nights of trying all kinds of work-arounds I was told this is the place to ask for help. After a lot of searching, I bought the Edimax EW-7108PCg wireless card. It should have worked 100% on linux. Indeed, when I first inserted it and booted up the system I saw the "activity" light on the card blinking, all looked well, I saw that the rt2500 was loaded, and even manged to connect to a network - the "link" light turned on, the dhcp request was answered by the network, I got an IP an DNS entries - all looked great. The Technion network required MAC authentication: it identified the MAC address of my card, asked me for my password (not a "network" password, just a one confirming I am a student in the Technion) and I was told that registration for the network is complete, and I have to restart my computer. When restarting, the lights on the card did not blink, there was no activity at all, as if the card is "dead". Moreover, the card somehow made the whole networking services get "stuck" - I cannot open system-networking, kill or restart the dhclient, issue iwconfig, connect using my ethernet - nothing. The computer is 90% stuck. It is needless to say that if I reboot without the wireless card everything is working well. Even if I boot from a live CD WITH the wireless card -all is well, the card is identified and active... (so the cards works on Ubuntu, after all it is an "pen" driver) It seams like something in my network configuration/services was changed after first connecting successfully to the Technion wireless network and ever since plugging in the wireless card (or booting up when it is inside) makes the whole system get stuck. Any ideas? Thanks a lot!!! Asaf. -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Haifux] A question on Ubuntu 6.0.6 - Edimax EW-7108 hangs network service
Asaf Cohen wrote: Hi all, I hope I am not troubling the readers of this mailing list, but after a few nights of trying all kinds of work-arounds I was told this is the place to ask for help. After a lot of searching, I bought the Edimax EW-7108PCg wireless card. It should have worked 100% on linux. Indeed, when I first inserted it and booted up the system I saw the activity light on the card blinking, all looked well, I saw that the rt2500 was loaded, and even manged to connect to a network - the link light turned on, the dhcp request was answered by the network, I got an IP an DNS entries - all looked great. The Technion network required MAC authentication: it identified the MAC address of my card, asked me for my password (not a network password, just a one confirming I am a student in the Technion) and I was told that registration for the network is complete, and I have to restart my computer. When restarting, the lights on the card did not blink, there was no activity at all, as if the card is dead. Moreover, the card somehow made the whole networking services get stuck - I cannot open system-networking, kill or restart the dhclient, issue iwconfig, connect using my ethernet - nothing. The computer is 90% stuck. It is needless to say that if I reboot without the wireless card everything is working well. Even if I boot from a live CD WITH the wireless card -all is well, the card is identified and active... (so the cards works on Ubuntu, after all it is an pen driver) It seams like something in my network configuration/services was changed after first connecting successfully to the Technion wireless network and ever since plugging in the wireless card (or booting up when it is inside) makes the whole system get stuck. Any ideas? just one idea : automated graphical administration programs in linux are still very weak and troublesome they are not an alternative to learn how to do things manually by running daemons from console my advise is to forget system-networking and learn about pppd or whatever is relevant for your connection i know little about networking but my best guess is some script in /etc/rc.d in configured badly try to run your distribution's initial network setup scripts in slackware it is simply netconfig but ubunto must have very stupidly made the user unaware of that script by doing the initial setup automatically Thanks a lot!!! Asaf. -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
