[fwlug] getting wireless card to work

[Jon]

Hrm. I'm not sure.

Can you run ifconfig after boot and copy the output here?

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 09:33 -0700, Eugene Tsai wrote:
> iface ath1 inet dhcp
> auto ath1
> 
> Thanks for the response. I checked the file /etc/network/interfaces.
> Those commands are already in the file as shown above. Does the order
> of the two lines matter?
> 
> Eugene Tsai
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 7/19/08, Jon <jonathan.bartels at gmail.com> wrote:
>         From: Jon <jonathan.bartels at gmail.com>
>         Subject: Re: [fwlug] getting wireless card to work
>         To: ectsaimd at yahoo.com, "Fort Wayne Linux Users Group"
>         <fwlug at fortwaynelug.org>
>         Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 10:08 AM
>         
>         You'll want to add an entry for it to /etc/networking/interfaces, it
>         will look similar to this:
>         
>         auto ath0
>         #iface ath0 inet dhcp
>         
>         The auto directive will make it come up automatically at boot,
>          and
>         shutdown cleanly when you power down.
>         
>         The iface line (which is commented out in the example above) will let
>         you set options such as dhcp, or nameservers, or a wireless network to
>         autoconnect to.
>         
>         If you want to just automatically do the ifup/ifdown the
>          auto line is
>         all you need.
>         
>         Happy hacking!!
>         
>         On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 01:07 -0700, Eugene Tsai wrote:
>         > Hi there,
>         > I am a linux newbie and recently installed ubuntu onto a Toshiba
>         > laptop (Satellite P25-S607). I have a couple questions about a Netgear
>         > WPN511 PCMIA card that worked under Windows to connect wirelessly to
>         > my router at home. Initially, the card did not work. But after a bit
>         > of internet research and trial and error, I am able to get the card to
>         > work, but not automatically. That is, when I first boot up, the card
>         > does not work, until I use the Terminal program and enter the
>         > following
>          lines:
>         > sudo ifdown ath1
>         > sudo ifup ath1
>         > After those two commands, the wireless card works. How do I set up the
>         > computer so that I don't have to manually type in those two commands?
>         > Can someone explain what is going on and why is it that these
>          two
>         > commands are able to get the card to work?
>         > 
>         > Thanks,
>         > Eugene Tsai
>         > 
>         > 
>         > 
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