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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Subject: Help with Network Settings in 6.06, Puleeez !
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I'm sitting here *again* with a totally clean installation of 6.06
on my other machine, an old IBM T21 laptop with PCMCIA
card (a Belkin F5D7010 wit RaLink 2500 chipset which I'm
told will work with the correct drivers).

Unfortunately the laptop does not have an ethernet connection
so hard wiring it to get things 'up and running' then switching
to a wireless connection is not an option which is open to me.

I've been here (many times) already and it all usually goes pear
shaped when I get to the point of trying to connect to my wireless
network using, as I have always done with my Win networks,
fixed IP addresses.

ie I'm past the : 'ndiswrapper -l' = 'Installed ndis drivers:
rt2500  driver present, hardware present' check
I've changed the entry for IPv6 in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
I've blacklisted IPv6 in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
I've deleted all entries for IPv6 in Networking>Network
Settings>Hosts.

So far, so good ?
Have I missed anything ?

So before I start this time, can someone confirm that I'm
putting the correct information in the correct fields in
Network settings and haven't missed anything or got
something_totally_wrong ?

What goes (if anything) in 'Location' ?

Default gateway device showing is : ra0
which looks to be OK.

On the various tabs in Network Settings.

Connection
Network Name = usr9106 - (USR9106 Wireless router)
Key type = Hexadecimal
WEP = 
Configuration = Static IP Address
IP Address = 192.168.1.xx - T21 Laptop with Ubuntu install
Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
Gateway address 192.168.1.aa - USR9106 Wireless router

General
Hostname = tango-t21 - T21 Laptop with Ubuntu install
Domain Name = 192.168.1.xx - T21 Laptop with Ubuntu install

DNS . . . . Is there anything needs to go in here ?
DNS Servers 
Search Domains 

Hosts
192.168.1.aa usr9106
127.0.0.1 localhost tango-t21
127.0.1.1 tango-t21
(All entries relating to Ipv6 have been removed)

Any help appreciated. I've been at this for over two
weeks now, in which time I've managed to get an
Internet connection twice.

But of course, on re-boot I lost it again . . .

I *NOW* know that after I get it set up I'll need to
edit several files such as '/etc/network/interfaces'
and the '/etc/modules' file but I'll cross that bridge
when I get to it.

-- jjj
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