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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Subject: Re: PCMCIA Wireless Network Card - USR 5410
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:31:57 +0000
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Whilst perusing Usenet on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:51:40 +0000, I read
these words from Moog  :
>"Josiah Jenkins" illuminated the devils arse on Monday 19 February 2007
>23:38 in alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>
>I had a similar problem with my mini-pci WiFi. 
>In my case... I needed to remove IPv6
>
>Open a terminal window....
>$ sudo gedit 
> /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
>
>replace
>alias net-pf-10 ipv6
>
>with the following four lines (the off gives a clue to what it's doing)
>
>alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off
>alias net-pf-10 off
>alias ipv6 off
>#alias net-pf-10 ipv6
>
>Reboot...
>
>Check it's worked by typing
>$ ip a | grep inet6 

Despite crawling the net for info on the matter, I'm still
struggling with this installation. I had an internet connection
via the wireless network *once*. I updated the depository
and software and ended up with a newer kernel number !
Ooops ! On re-boot, I lost the Wi-Fi . . .

I decided to re-install to get a 'clean sheet' to work with
(reckoning on doing another update but at least I'd have
some idea of what would happen thereafter)

Now, even after altering the alias file, I can't get the above
query to return a blank line (presumably it should ?).

Instead I get_'inet6 ::1/128 scope host'_ returned

I've now re-installed several times (5 ?) using a wireless
connection but always get the above.

So I dug out an ethernet cable and connected into the router
with my old Xircom Ethernet 10/100 + 56K modem card.
(I have lights on both router and card and the card does
show up in the 'Connections' box in 'Network Settings')

This time I get *two* lines from the query :
'_ inet6 ::1/128 scope host_'
'_ inet6 fe80::210:a4ff:fec5:67c7/64 scope link_'

And 'pings' to the router still fail 100%.
  
Any ideas ?
>
>You may also wish to blacklist it (a good idea if it gets you a connection)
>sudo echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist 

Would this, on its own, be enough ?

-- jjj
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