[Wolves] Wifi, Ubuntu, Sick as a Parrot

[Adam Sweet]

--- ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin
<dick_turpin at archlinux.us> wrote:

> On 13/12/2007, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I know Dave has already said this, but it might
> not
> > have been obvious without the capitalisation.
> Ubuntu
> > uses Network Manager. You can't just copy the
> config I
> > don't think as I believe there are other changes
> > required to support this kind of 'click and change
> at
> > will' type of networking, such as scripts to
> restart
> > the network then do a DHCP release and request
> > everytime the network changes. These may well come
> > with NM, but I don't know for sure. Of course you
> > could just try to install Network Manager on your
> > 'Notbuntu' distro and see what happens. If it
> > irretrievably breaks your whole world, which it
> may,
> > then you get to keep both pieces (tm). I
> personally
> > wouldn't take the risk without knowing what to
> expect
> > on a machine I rely upon.
> 
> Yeah pretty much what I was thinking I don't fancy
> borking my beloved
> Arch seeing as I've broken numerous fingers had four
> heart transplants
> and sweated 82 pints of blood nurturing it to its
> beautiful state.
> 
> I wasn't planning to overwrite anything anyway I was
> hoping for some
> sort of comparison between two config files so that
> maybe I could see
> what was missing or in the wrong place on mine.

Hmm, the network config files are different between
distros. Ubuntu uses /etc/network/interfaces and is a
single file, while Red Hat/Fedora etc uses
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX for each
interface. While the values are the same, the syntax
is slightly different. As I'm using Network Manager,
my interface file is just actually meaningless and
/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01ifupdown is a
script.

> But what I don't understand is why I don't just get
> kicked out "Could
> not determine an IP address" instead it gives some
> random numbered IP
> range and reports it is connected which its not.

Do you have Avahi installed? Avahi is the same as
Zeroconf/Bonjour/Rendezvous on OS X and is similar to
the Windows thing (SSDP I think) where the machine
does some kind of network discovery (not DCHP) and
gives itself a 169.254.0.0 address when it can't get a
network address.

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