[Tfug] Trouble with wifi ap. Out of ideas

[Nathanial Hendler]

I have a thinkpad 42 with working wireless.  That is, working when I'm at my
home network, and several public access points.

I am training in Denver, and at this hotel, I can't get it to work.  If I
run windows, the wireless works just fine, so I know the access point is
ok.  When using linux, dhcp returns an IP, and it works for about one or two
webpages before dying.  Then I can't ping anything.  If I try to release and
renew my dhcp lease, I get no reply.  iwconfig shows the correct essid, and
a strong signal.

If I change the essid to something that doesn't work, do dhcp, let it time
out (it gets nothing of course) change the essid back to the ap I'm wanting,
and run dhcp again, I'll get the same IP that I got the first time, but not
be able to get any network activity.

Some things I've noticed...

There are a lot of access points from my hotel room.  I think around 9.
Only windows can give me a list.  I can't get a list (or don't know how)
from the linux side of things.

eth0:avah sometimes shows up with an IP, but eth0 is not my wireless card
(it's eth1).  Also, the IP it has isn't a valid IP for the A.P. I'm trying
to use.

I'm using xubuntu.  recent.  6.10 or newer.  Don't remember off hand.

Any ideas?

Also, how do I dissable avahi from running at startup?

Thanks,
Nathan
Tucson, AZ USA
http://retards.org/