[KLUG Members] KLUG wireless access problem

[econophil at charter.net]

(Mandrake 10.1 on Sony PCG-SRX77; Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter)

Last night my wireless wouldn't work with the new KLUG network (klug)--despite Adam's best efforts and the fact that it was working OK on the Windows boot. This morning it wouldn't work either on Linux and again worked on Windows.

ifconfig (back at linux) showed an inet6 address . . .  (which seemed left over from last night...)
pinging my router gave a "Network is unreachable" error message.

Poking around the Configure Network dialog box I took the opportunity to change the setting for eth1 (firewire) from "Start at Boot." I also deleted "klug" from the wireless (eth2) Network Name box.

Somehow these caused the system to adjust itself and get me on my wireless.  (I think I had tried deleting the "klug" before without success.)
 
I'm now at a public wireless spot and the Linux switched to the new wireless network without any issues.

This leaves me with these questions:
1.  Why does the KLUG system at CofC want to send out an IPv6 address?

2.  Why does my Mandrake 10.1 not work with that IPv6 address?

3.  Why does the presence of that IPv6 address seem to keep my computer from switching back to my home network without a lot of grief?
 
EB