Great.... your suggestion got me thinking again and i used /sbin/ifup wlan0 to get wireless interface up and then down as a part of checking. After chaning making it ad-hoc and "penguin" [instead of "foo"]
I think now with this I am able to get ifce as I can see the following output of "/sbin/ifconfig" ============================================= wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7D:BD:72:B5 inet addr:192.168.10.51 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:19 Memory:d0200000-d0204000 ============================================= eth0 and lo are also there but I just cut them out of this output... with "kwifimanager" if I try to scan for network, it returns that nothing found. Maybe... maybe I have a question... should i be changing the frequency of my wifi card assuming it can be changed from settings. I also have following question... my wifi light does not become on, and "link ready" message does not come under "dmesg" but "link not ready" no more comes on so it looks like interface is also UP. your suggestion of setting up anothe unit with same settings is good but right now I do not have another unit to setup. So I will inquire about any settings with admin who has that wifi router. Last time I inquired the response was **automatic** :-) "Oh..! you don't have to do any setting under windows, just choose automatic for most options under windows and everything will work, give static IP and your TCP/IP settings seem correct" {Thanks for stirring my grey cells into thinking on this and for valuable suggestions.} -- "arise, wake and stop not till the goal is reached" loose translation of saying by स्वामी विवेकानंद
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