wireless connection

[Jerry Feldman]

I use the DLink dir-655 with zero problems.
Generally, addresses from .2 to .99 are used for static IP addresses. My
printer and my desktop computers are set to static IPs. My Acer Aspire
One (Ubuntu 10.10) is set to connect via DHCP.

The main thing you need to do is to edit connections. At the top of each
connection is a checkbox "Connect automatically". Make sure that the
static IP connection (.3) is set and that the dhcp one is unclicked.

On 11/03/2010 11:38 AM, j. daniel moylan wrote:
> wireless connection
>
> i've been running ubuntu 10.04 on an asus eee pc 1005ha, and
> two panasonic cf-50s, with wireless connections to a netgear
> mr814 -- 802.11b -- old, running without wep or wpa, just
> requiring the mac addresses be listed in the router (and
> yes, you have told me that's poor security).
>
> i set up the wireless interconnection using the
> nm-connection-editor, set to manual, specifying the address,
> and this worked fine.  i put the addresses of my local
> computers in /etc/hosts and could scp, ssh etc back in forth
> at will by name -- all fine.
>
> i decided to upgrade for more speed/range to a dlink
> dir-655, 802.11n, with wpa security.
>
> naturally i needed to add the key, but was unable to make
> connection, even with reboot.  backing off to dhcp protocol,
> it still wouldn't connect, but on reboot it did. =20
>
> with the proper values in /etc/network/interfaces,=20
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart switched the address
> from 192.168.0.101 to 192.168.0.3 (e.g.) which is where i
> leave it, but on reboot, it still comes up 192.168.0.101.
> even when i'm happily chugging away with 192.168.0.3, it
> occasionaly switches back to 192.168.0.101 all by itself.
>
> i get similar performance on all three computers.
>
> something i'm doing isn't right, but i have no idea what.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> tia.
>
> ole dan
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>  =20


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