Mailing List ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #92

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [eCS T60/T61] Wireless vs. Cable settings
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:59:49 -0400
To:	eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>

On 04/22/08 01:39 pm, Jon Harrison thus wrote : I'm having problems with my internet setup. I have no problem with a cat-5 connection. The wireless connection is a different story. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Personally, I think the wLan Monitor widget requires something that I don't have set correctly. Jon, could you give us some more addressing information, such as: * IP subnet of your wired (and wireless) network(s) * Topology of your network, i.e., wired connection goes through switch A to router A; wireless goes from AP A to switch B to router B to router A, etc. * What IP addresses are you using for wired vs wireless? If these are on the same subnet, the addresses should be different, so as not to confuse arp tables built by other equipment. <snip> Yesterday I had no problem with wireless internet access. The only thing that changed is that I powered down last night. This morning I had to power off 3x on bootup before the boot would finish (it's been like this ever since I activated psd /smp). Yes, I am seeing this, too, but haven't been able to nail down the cause. I did not see it with ACPI 3.07. Today I made a change to the wLan DNS setup, toggling it on and setting it to 1.1.1.1. After that I was able to connect perfectly fine. This is odd because it is the first entry into my original resolv2 file. Unfortunately, this setting overwrites resolv2 even though the help says it sets Hosts in %etc%. What the "Add router name to DNS" option should really read is "Add AP name to HOSTS." This will not help you with DNS lookups at all. The fact that rseolv2 is getting overwritten is either a bug (I haven't tested it myself) or something else at play. I already have the above in my Hosts file anyway. As far as I can tell the only thing setting dns in wLan does is rewrite my resolve file be deleting everything after the 2nd line in the file. Could it be that more than one ip in the resolv2 file confuses wLan? On the TCP/IP page of your profile, when you click the More TCP/IP Options... button, what do you have entered? If using a static IP and if you have nothing entered for DNS, this will delete the entry in resolv2 (or rather, when the wired is turned off, the entry is removed, and this would not re-populate it - unless the correct entry is filled in). Christian really should add more fields to allow for secondary and tertiary name servers to be added when using a static IP. I'll ask him about this. I'd rather maintain the resolv2 file as it originally was. I don't even know why 1.1.1.1 works. Without knowing a bit more about your setup, I'm not sure either. My problem is further compounded by lockups on bootup & by eCenter whenever I've been toggling the wireless on/off. I may just start over again & reinstall the whole thing. What I see from eCenter is a propensity for it to exit unexpectedly. On my T43, I have the full Xworkplace package installed and do not see that. I'm not sure whether it's ACPI related, widget-related, or something else. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------

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