Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi, I do dual boot the machine.. I had problems with the internal wireless, some Broadcom chip, I could never make it connect to a network reliably and some it refused to connect properly at all. The dongle and wireless works perfectly in XP, although if I leave the dongle in while booting up the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Holloway
Hi Toby > wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:2f:be:80:69 > inet addr:192.168.0.42 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 Looks fine > Kernel IP routing table Looks fine > From Jonah.local (192.168.0.42) icmp_seq=46 Destination Host Unreachable what happens if you ping 192.16

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi Michael, This the out put of ifconfig and route. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:25:18:ea:d3 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 c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Holloway
You say that the DNS stopped working? It doesn't seem likely. Can you ping your router via the IP address? `ping 192.168.0.1` (or whatever) should work regardless of DNS, while `ping my.router.com` (whatever your routers dns name is) relies on DNS. `ping www.google.com ` will resolve the IP addr

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.10 and WG111v3

2009-03-20 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi, I have used this dongle before and it worked, can't remember the specifics. But, now the network connects and is authenticated I use WPA, yet after a very brief second or two when traffic can be sent and received ( Learned by setting ping going before and during connection to the wireless netw