Ubuntu Feisty wireless connection

[Bryan Sant]

On 5/9/07, Russel Caldwell <caldr704 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been banging my head on this one for a while. I think I've narrowed the
> problem down but I'm having trouble getting past this point. I had Ubuntu 6
> installed until just recently and my wireless was a bit flaky but it was
> working. Since I've upgraded to Ubuntu 7 I can't get it to work. The
> computer seems to "see" the wireless broadcast. When I do `dmesg` it gives
> me:
>
> ipw2200: Detected Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
>
> but then it gives me:
>
> eth1: no IPv6 routers present

Are your interfaces named funny when you run ifconfig?  I can't
remember what mine were by default (something like eth1:avam).  When I
used Network Manager to connect to my AP I deleted the ":avam" suffix
-- just leaving eth1 -- and it worked fine.

-Bryan