[KLUG Members] KLUG wireless access problem

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> 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.

Oddly, the network adapter doesn't appear in the tray-widget to stop and
start interfaces.  Perhaps this is a Mandrake configuration thing.   Any
Mandrakians here?

> 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.

This is most likely a zeroconf address, and since this is not a zeroconf
network it doesn't help you any.

> 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.)

It might have just caused an interface restart.

> I'm now at a public wireless spot and the Linux switched to the new wireless network 
> without any issues.

That is the benefit of NOT specifying the network name;  it should grab
whatever one it finds (theoretically).

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

I think you box is being 'helpful' and creating this address on its own.

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

I don't think the CoC network supports IPv6 (does any network?).

> 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?

It was probably removing the "klug" network name that fixed that (I'd
guess).
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