[Gllug] wicd manager

[damion.yates at gmail.com]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, lucypeters at mail.com wrote:

> > Can you look up these addresses? (wifi router via web interface,
> > eth1 using ifconfig on the laptop).
> > 
> > This is definitely with the eth0 (physical cable) unplugged?
 
> with cable plugged into the laptop:
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig -a
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:f0:71:c3:41  
>           inet addr:192.168.0.103  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

Fine, as expected.

> with cable unplugged from the laptop: 

Did you kick off wicd and wait a few minutes for things to settle?
 
> /sbin/ifconfig -a
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:f0:71:c3:41  
>           inet6 addr: fe80::200:f0ff:fe71:c341/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
 
Good it's lost the IP as it noticed the link go down.
 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0e:35:1e:de:f8  
>           inet6 addr: fe80::20e:35ff:fe1e:def8/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

Okay eth1 hasn't picked up its IP.
 
> netstat -nr
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 pan0

Just pan0 (http://affix.sourceforge.net/affix-doc/c1051.html)
 
> Do you know what the address beginning 169.254.0.0 is ? 

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=169.254.0.0

I think it's MS original idea for uPnP, Wikipedia has an article on
Zeroconf which explains. it's like even more basic that DHCP, however
it's on your bluetooth/PAN interface and not relevant here.
 
> > Do you have another laptop connected to the wifi router via wifi or
> > cable?
> 
> I don't have another laptop connected to the wifi router but I have
> windows xp in dual boot. The wifi connection is working fine when
> using windows xp. 

Try turning off dynamic IP setting on wireless (via wicd perhaps) and
manually setting 192.168.0.103 as the IP on eth1 (wireless).  See if you
can then ping 192.168.0.1, the ifconfig command will show the details
you've just set, so not much use to us.

If this and tcpdump -i eth1 both return no success, then you just need
to concentrate on getting your wireless to work.  This was the only
thing that was working a couple of weeks ago at the start of this thread
and started with your going through the wicd config.

Damion
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