[Fwd: Re: [plug] ma111 usb wireless adapter]

[Darren]

thanks for your help craig i have sorted out the ma111 wireless adapter 
problem i had by altering the /etc/network/interfaces file to match my 
wireless network specs.i will try to be clearer with my explanations in 
the future.thanks again.


Craig Ringer wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 13:20 +0800, darren wrote:
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>>Hi Craig
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>>Yes you are right, the ma111 is a wireless USB Ethernet
>>adapter from Netgear. Next time ill be more detailed with my question. I
>>typed the iwconfig wlan0 command and it shows a different essid not the
>>essid of my lan, which is one of my problems I have realised. Signal
>>strength looks good and there is no mac address for the AP. I can
>>connect by using sudo wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin
>>ssid=<thecorrectssid> authtype=opensystem then dhclient wlan0 and it
>>gets its IP and everything is working ok, but when I boot the ssid is the
>>original I had entered and of course I then have no connection. Which
>>file needs to be edited to correct this problem?
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>I'm afraid I don't know - I'm insufficiently familiar with your distro
>and the tools you're trying to use. I'll take a guess though. Being
>Debian based, the chances are it puts network configuration
>in /etc/network/ so perhaps you have to do some /etc/network/interfaces
>magic with pre_up commands. Any Debian gurus want to have a try?
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>By the way, I found your mail a little hard to read, and suspect others
>may have as well. You may get a better response if you spend a little
>more time writing a bit more carefully.
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