Kubuntu 7.10 wifi lan problems - could not find how.

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 12:02:24 pm Paulo Wollny wrote:
> Hi,
> i migrated from SusE to Kubuntu, and since then, i'm having network
> problems and i'm not being able to solve.
> After configuring networks cards (wired and wireless), it takes a long
> time after each boot until dhclient3 discovers the address, and it only
> does for eth0 (wired).
> For eth1 (wireless) to work, i need to manually run kwifi and activate
> it, and run /etc/init.d/networking restart.
> I renamed eth1 to wlan0 at /etc/udev/rules.d, but it did not change.
> I removed whereami, and did not help.
> Does someone knows how to solve it, in order that after booting the
> system, the wireless network can automatically gets up and connects to
> my access point (using dhcp)?
> TIA,
> Paulo Wollny

I had the same problems with my Intel Wireless card.  I put "ifdown eth1" 
and "ifup eth1" in my rc.local file (I think it was), or you could install 
wicd and let it control the wireless instead.  
The Home page is: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

I haven't had any trouble since installing that.



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Howard Coles Jr.
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