[ale] Got wireless working in 8.04, but ...

[James Earl Smith]

I was so happy to get wireless working in 8.04, but my joy was short 
lived. For I now have a line in ifconfig that I have no idea what it 
does, other then maybe blocking my wired card from linking into our home 
dhcp server.

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0b:db:9d:04:98
inet addr:169.254.6.161 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:17

In all my other versions of Ubuntu  I have not seen this line before.

James