Kubuntu 6.06.1 on a sony laptop. Generally very satisfactory, but I'd like to have the wireless connection made at boot.
When I had it set up with a cabled connection, all was well, but now I have gone wireless.
My chipset uses ipw2200, and works fine (even with WPA!).
Originally, I thought it was going wrong because eth0 (wired) was also being "brought up", but it was not physically connected. So I disabled eth0 at boot.
My modem/router/switch is at 10.0.0.2, and I have a static IP of 10.0.0.8
From a cold boot, there is no wireless connection. Information follows:
Code:
root@vaio:~# ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:6F:41:24:CE
inet addr:10.0.0.8 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:217 Base address:0x6000 Memory:b0006000-b0006fff
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:721 (721.0 b) TX bytes:721 (721.0 b)
It looks OK, but doesn't work. I can't even ping the router:
Code:
root@vaio:~# ping 10.0.0.2
PING 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.0.0.8 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.0.0.8 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 10.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4003ms, pipe 2
root@vaio:~# route
Kernel IP routeing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
default 10.0.0.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
If I bring eth1 down then up again, either through the Network Settings GUI or like this, it works:
Code:
root@vaio:~# ifdown eth1
root@vaio:~# ifup -v eth1
Configuring interface eth1=eth1 (inet)
run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant
wpa_supplicant: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant: guessing wpa-driver type of "wext" for eth1
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.eth1.pid -i eth1 -C /var/run/wpa_supplicant -D wext
Starting /sbin/wpa_supplicant...
wpa_supplicant: ctrl_interface socket located at /var/run/wpa_supplicant/eth1
wpa_supplicant: configuring new network block "0"wpa_supplicant: wpa-ssid : OK
wpa_supplicant: wpa-passphrase : OK
wpa_supplicant: enabling network 0 : OK
ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.8 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 10.255.255.255 up
route add default gw 10.0.0.2 eth1
run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs
run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate
root@vaio:~# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
default www.routerlogin 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
root@vaio:~# ping -c 1 google.co.uk
PING google.co.uk (72.14.221.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from fg-in-f104.google.com (72.14.221.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=26.8 ms
--- google.co.uk ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.843/26.843/26.843/0.000 ms
root@vaio:~#
My /etc/network/interfaces file:
Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0
iface eth0 inet static
broadcast 10.255.255.255
address 10.0.0.8
netmask 255.0.0.0
gateway 10.0.0.2
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
broadcast 10.255.255.255
address 10.0.0.8
netmask 255.0.0.0
gateway 10.0.0.2
wpa-passphrase issecret
wpa-ssid Routerssid
wireless-channel 11
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
What am I doing wrong? Why won't eth1 come up at boot?
And where did "www.routerlogin" in the route table come from?
