Wireless Woes U7.04 and D-Lnk WDA-1320

[Pete Holsberg]

Pete Holsberg keyed the following on 6/30/2007 4:41 PM:
>  I bought a new PCI wireless card for it's Atheros chipset and
>  reinstalled Ubuntu 7.04,
>
>  Got a message about restricted drivers; it recognized my adapter! :-)
>
>  Tried to configure the adapter with the Network Tools/Manager and
>  while I was able to select one of the ESSIDs it saw and add the WEP
>  password, I was unable to use any network tools (ping, traceroute,
>  etc.)
>
>  When I tried iwconfig, ath0 had no ESSID or nickname and when I tried
>  to give it one, the connand failed!!
>
>  What is going on here???

<blush> Forgot to use sudo!

OK, now it has a nickname, an ESSID and an AP, but IU still cannot ping, 
etc.!!

-- 
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the 
lesson afterwards.
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