** Reply to message from "Jim Showalter" <jshowalt@mindspring.com> on Thu, 24
Nov 2005 12:41:47 -0800

Next, if I boot with the wired lan cable connected, I don't get a clean
switch to wireless via wlan, as I understand it won't from your
discussion below.  If I boot with the lan cable disconnected, wlan
configures the IBMPRISM wireless so that I can connect.  I still have a
problem with some web sites in the browser not being able to load (some
do, some don't), but I suspect there is still some garbage left over
from the wired setup not properly disabled.

Jim, check your routing table (netstat -r) for multiple default routes.  I get
the same "maybe/maybe not" symptoms if I have a default defined in the tcpip
settings then also connect with dhcp.  If both settings default to the router
it's OK, but if they are to different address I get weird connections.  I hit
this fairly often making all sorts of configuration changes for multiple local
networks so I finally forced myself to stop that nonsense and if I have a case
where I need a fixed default I try and make it the router.