On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:23:55PM +0530, Aishwarya MB wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I recently received the IP address for my computer for connecting to
> my college wireless network.
> They just gave me the IP address and password.
> Now i'm unable to connect to the wireless network though.
>
> In the IPV4 settings page I've specified the following :
> Method : Manual
> Then I've added address, netmask and gateway respectively as
> 172.16.217.102, 255.255.0.0, 172.16.4.254, same as the information
> which i've been provided with in college.
>
> So what else should be done here?
>
> I've also specified the correct password. But still I couldn't do
> anything about it.
> Anyone has answers?
To be sure, I expect that you're using an application like Network
Manager or wicd to connect to a wireless router available. Is this the
case? This would also imply that you need to specify the right
encryption format etc.
Thanks.
Kumar
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