Wireless problems after upgrade to 4.10 (fwd)

Jesse Sheidlower jester at panix.com
Fri Oct 29 18:43:43 PDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:02:59PM +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> 
> Let me guess: You're accidentally connecting to a neighbour's open AP 
> who's using the same 192.168 addresses as you are. Your neighbour has 
> dialup, or unplugs his DSL, so you can't really use his AP.

Dingdingding! Yes, something like that seems to be it.

I should have realized it--even the ifconfig results I posted here
showed "linksys" as the SSID; and my Linksys has a different name.
All I had to do was point wiconfig at my own AP and that was that.

Thanks for suggesting this.

Jesse Sheidlower


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