Finding my WLAN IP address.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/03/2008, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ ifconfig
> > ...
> > eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:DE:98:C7:34
> >          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:0 errors:92 dropped:4554 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >          RX bytes:11343827 (10.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2090090 (1.9 MiB)
> >          Interrupt:16 Memory:efcff000-efcfffff
> >
> > feisty at feisty-laptop:~$ iwconfig
> >
> ...
> > eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any
> >          Mode:Managed  Frequency=nan kHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
> >          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:16 dBm
> >          Retry limit:15   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >          Power Management:off
> >          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
> >          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:4600   Missed beacon:0
> > ...
> > I most certain am connected (I'm posting this, right?), but why can't
> > I find the address? Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> Wow, your system seems to think you don't have any connection working at
> all.
>
> One thing I would try is to run "tracepath www.google.com" - the first entry
> shown should be your local machine, including IP address.

As soon as I get back to that hotspot I will try tracepath. Thanks.

> Maybe your wireless interface isn't showing up here for some reason?

What reason could that be? It shows up in KNetworkManager just fine.

> Another thing to try is "route" and see what interface your default route is
> on.

I will google that, thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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