[svlug] Progress with VNC

[Skip Evans]

Hey Robert & all,

I added the line

wireless-mode managed

to /etc/network/interfaces

But the results are the same. I also looked at my router for 
the channel number and added

wireless-channel 6

As they have in the sample you cited, but still to no avail.

After that it failed with wireless-channel 6 I removed that 
and now have

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid "Camarillo Brillo"
wireless-key hex-key-value-of-my-router
wireless-mode managed

So now I'm quite baffled.

Skip

Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 20:10 -0600, Skip Evans wrote:
>> I have tried putting the following into
>>
>> /etc/network/interfaces
>>
>> auto wlan0
>> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>> wireless-essid "Camarillo Brillo"
>> wireless-key hex-key-value-of-my-router
>>
>> But when booting the Ubuntu boot screen sits with the bar 
>> about halfway through about about two full minutes, then 
>> continues on to the shell boot screen and after logging in the 
>> interface still cannot access the LAN.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> According to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo
> What you have looks correct, except you are missing:
> 
> wireless-mode managed
> 
> The long delay during boot, sounds like it is trying to configure the
> interface, but is timing out on the DHCP request.
> 
> So, you are editing the correct file, you just need to get the settings
> correct.
> 

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