Are you running Kubuntu 5.10 (breezy badger) or Dapper Drake? I know on the forthcoming Dapper, they've finally added NetworkManager, which is going to fix a lot of your problems below. Paul jkjones at tcq.net wrote: >Anyone have any words of wisdom on wireless connections? I'm running >Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu) on my notebook with built-in wireless card. I have no >trouble at all when I'm home and I connect to my own router (with NAT and >WEP). But when I try to use a "free wireless" at a library or Dunn Bros >(where I am now), getting a connection is hit-or-miss. I usually start >with KWiFiManager, which always finds the access point right away. But I >can't get an IP address through dhcp with any consistency. Most of the >time, nothing happens for 5 to 10 minutes (when I lose patience and try >something else). Once in a while, after several false starts, everything >works and I get a connection. > >I've tried most of the options with the command-line commands: ifconfig, >iwconfig, ifup, ifdown and so on, but I've never found anything that gets a >connection. I've tried all the combinations in KWiFiManager -- they seem >to be equivalent to the command-line options; the GUI's a little easier to >read. > >I don't know if it means anything, but dmesg adds lines "wlan0: no IPv6 >routers present" for every time I hit "Activate" in KWiFiManager. > >Thanks for any suggestions... > >Kraig Jones > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > >