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now this is really confusing ... i ran #udhcpc
and did end up getting onto the internet, but of
course it's with a DHCP ip address and not the
static address that i wanted.

but iwconfig _still_ shows the frequency as 2.412 GHz
(i.e., channel 1) and not the channel which my router
is actually using! so then maybe that's just a bug
in the output of iwconfig?

anyway, now i see that my big problem is that i am
not able to connect to the internet using a static
ip address. i don't know why, because i believe that
i have the DNS set up correctly.

my /etc/networks has: basicnet 192.168.2.0.
my router's ip is 192.168.2.1, which is what i use
for the gateway on all my other wireless computers
(which are all running SliTaz GNU/Linux),
so is my /etc/networks correct? or should it be:
basicnet 192.168.2.1 ...?

help would be appreciated, because i really don't
want to use dhcp with this wireless card. 

i'm having exactly the same problem with my brand-new
64-bit Linux Mint 8 on my newest laptop -- it refuses
to access the internet when i use my static ip, but
gets on with no problem using DHCP.


-monz



--- On Sat, 1/30/10, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> 
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> From: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [BL] iwconfig stuck on channel 1
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 1:54 AM
> hello all,
> 
> I am using BL 3.50 as a regular installed linux
> on a compaq armada 7710mt, vintage around 1997.
> 
> I am using a cisco aironet wireless card on this machine.
> I have installed the wireless packages, and was getting
> on the internet without problems when i had my router
> set to automatic channel selection.
> 
> I recently changed that, and set it to a fixed channel,
> to avoid interference problems that i was having on
> my other computers, and they have not been having any
> problems since then.
> 
> Now i just tried to get my compaq online for the
> first time since setting the router to a fixed channel,
> and i find that when i run iwconfig the compaq is
> stuck on channel 1 and will not change.
> 
> I have tried changing both the channel and the
> frequency with iwconfig, and in fact have even
> set both in my /etc/rc file, but running #iwconfig
> still shows eth0 set to channel 1.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> -monz
> (stuck on 2.412GHz)
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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