[ale] So close but not yet

James Smith feenix at feenix.us
Wed Mar 21 23:57:25 EDT 2007


I tried connecting to the home network and found my home network was on 
the blacklist. Now how do I get it off of it?

James


Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:32 -0400, James Smith wrote:
>   
>> I now have my wireless seeing the  home network and others in the area. 
>> My final wall is the card will not connect to the DHCP to  get the ip 
>> address.
>>     
>
> This could be due to a couple of things.  First, can you get a DHCP
> address from anywhere via a wired connection?  If so, then the wifi
> connectivity issue could be due to incompatible settings between your
> host and your wifi router.  To better understand those, tail the syslog
> file (tail -f /var/log/syslog) and look for connection events.  For
> instance, if you are using Ubuntu, look for events with NetworkManager
> in them.  You will see connection stages from 1 to 5, see what stage it
> is getting hung on.  Also, just in case you don't know, you can press
> "CTRL+C" to stop the "tail -f" command above.
>
> -Jim P.
>
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