[ale] ubuntu IMAP does't work, neither does wireless

[Brian Pitts]

Turn off your firewall on your debian box and try ashing again.

-brian

Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:

>On 11/03/2010 06:07 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
>> > > now on to ubuntu... wireless doesn't work, couldn't connect to my
>> > > router. so I installed wicd. tha always worked before. THis time,
>> nada.
>> > > says bad password. boot to XP, connects fine.
>> Can you provide more info than "couldn't connect"? At what point does it
>> fail?  Maybe there is some information in /var/log/daemon.log from when
>> you were trying to connect via NetworkManager?
>it tries 2 or 3 times and says bad password.
>ssh also fails.. to connect
>>
>> > > I was trying to setup an IMAP account back to my desktop, but it also
>> > > times out, no connection, as does ssh. ssh worked in windows, so I'm
>> > > thinking iptables maybe? on my debian desktop, kern.log & messages
>> both
>> > > show an entry for my laptop where I tried to ssh, something about
>> > > Inbound... SRC=my_ip, DST=debian IP.... so I'm not getting it..
>> So you're trying to ssh from your Ubuntu 10.10 laptop to your Debian
>> desktop and it doesn't work? Add the -v argument so ssh and see what it
>> reports.
>>
>> What are your iptables rules in Debian? YOu say you see entries int he
>> logs when you try to connect, but what have you told iptables to log?
>> Allowed connections? Dropped connections? Something else?
>>
>> Do you have the same IP address when you boot Windows and when you boot
>> Ubuntu on the laptop?
>mmm not sure, it uses DHCP, but it is in the same range 192.168.10.3
>up-to 8.
>the log I saw the entries in ( on the debian box) was /var/log/messages
>& /var/log/kern.log
>ssh -v on ubuntu only says
> ssh: connect to host DEBIAN_IP on port 22: Connection timed out
>
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>Paul
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