> From: Thomas H. George [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:35 PM > Subject: Wireless Setup Problem > > I installed a Debian system including Gnome 2.22.3 on my OLPC (One > Laptop per Child) laptop from a usb drive and tried to make a wireless > connection to our LAN. > > After numerous tries (details below) I succeeded yesterday afternoon. > > Today nothing works. When I put the cursor on the network icon the > message "manual network configuration" appears and when I click on the > icon the message "no network devices have been found" appears. If I > open a terminal and enter iwconfig everything is just I left it > yesterday. > > A part of the problem is that our LAN uses static ip addresses not dhcp. > Yesterday I tried iwconfig and ip commands without success. Finally, in > /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian I found I could edit > /etc/network/interfaces and add to the iface eth1 inet static stanza the > lines > > wireless-essid foo > wireless-mode ad-hoc > > Immediately after I did this putting the cursor on the network icon > showed three signals - one for our lan and two for the neighbors. The > system connected to our lan and through the gateway to the internet. > > As I said, today nothing works though iwconfig shows out essid and mode > ad-hoc and Link Quality=100/100 Signal Level=0 dBm Noise Lever= -96 dBm. > > What could have gone wrong? I am guessing that you are using network-manager. I usually like network-manager, but the one consistent problem I have had with network-manager has been setting manual IP addresses. You may want to consider installing WICD instead. I, and many others, have had great luck with WICD. http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php Hope this helps! Have fun! ~Stack~ _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
