[Tfug] wireless connecting

[Paul Scott]

earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
> 
>> On 01/16/2010 12:45 AM, Paul Scott wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What are recommendations for wireless connection software?  I am
>>> currently not having great success with wicd or network-manager-gnome.
>>> Connections which worked before are not working now.  Two of these are
>>> my home Linksys using WPA2 personal and Epic Cafe (WPA(2)) and
>>> Bentley's (no security).
>>>
>>> TIA for ideas,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
> 
> Hi, Paul,
> 
> I used both.  I found both to work well.  I now use network-manager-gnome
> as it allows me to access hidden networks.  The last time I tried wicd it
> didn't handle that.

Can someone help me get connected to the places I can no longer connect? 
  I have researched several areas on this according the various error 
messages I have seen from the interfaces and in the logs.  One is:

Unable to obtain IP address.

Another situation is getting connected to the router at Epic Cafe but 
not getting beyond that to the Internet when other customers are getting 
all the way out.

The one that should be the easiest is my setup here where I could 
connect before I set up security but after I set up WP I get "Unable to 
obtain IP address"  (dhclient failure to obtain working lease)

One question is what should I have in /etc/network/interfaces for eth1 
which is the wireless interface?

Thanks,

Paul