Cool, thanks for the description. It's nice to actually learn about some of this stuff instead just having somebody fix it for me.
me@me-name:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"connection"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Power Management
ff
me@me-name:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6079 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5254777 (5.2 MB) TX bytes:790697 (790.6 KB)
Interrupt:18
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17800 (17.8 KB) TX bytes:17800 (17.8 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:10.42.43.1 Bcast:10.42.43.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:4786 (4.7 KB)
Ok, here is the output of the iwconfig and ifconfig. I just replaced the mac addresses with x's. I don't know what CELL is, or what it is used for, but it was different than any mac address and I replaced it with x's as well. I entered the commands when I was only connected to wireless. I just used a wired connection to copy them here after the fact. I don't think that matters though... because it seems like a history of your connections?
Also, as I said before it seems strange that it would say that I am connected, but I don't have a router assigned IP; I have that strange IP.
Thanks again,
K.out