[TAG] Mandriva 2007 - WiFi cards cannot find network

[OS]

Found two entries for 169.254
httpd/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm as follows:
# Definition of the Ranges for IPv4 IPs
%IPv4ranges = (
    '00000000'                 => 'PRIVATE',     # 0/8
    '00001010'                 => 'PRIVATE',     # 10/8
    '01111111'                 => 'PRIVATE',     # 127.0/8
    '101011000001'             => 'PRIVATE',     # 172.16/12
    '1100000010101000'         => 'PRIVATE',     # 192.168/16
    '1010100111111110'         => 'RESERVED',    # 169.254/16
    '110000000000000000000010' => 'RESERVED',    # 192.0.2/24
    '1110'                     => 'RESERVED',    # 224/4
    '11110'                    => 'RESERVED',    # 240/5
    '11111'                    => 'RESERVED',    # 248/5
);

and 
httpd/lib/libDrakX/network/connection/ethernet.pm as follows:
        if_($self->{protocol} eq 'dhcp',
            { label => N("DHCP client"), val => \$self->{address}
{dhcp_client}, list => \@dhcp_clients, advanced => 1 },
            { label => N("DHCP timeout (in seconds)"), val => 
\$self->{address}{dhcp_timeout}, advanced => 1 },
            { text => N("Get YP servers from DHCP"), val => \$self->{address}
{peeryp}, type => "bool", advanced => 1 },
            { text => N("Get NTPD servers from DHCP"), val => 
\$self->{address}{peerntpd}, type => "bool", advanced => 1 },
            { label => N("DHCP host name"), val => \$self->{address}
{dhcp_hostname}, advanced => 1 },
            #- FIXME: install zcip if not checked
            if_(0, { text => N("Do not fallback to Zeroconf (169.254.0.0 
network)"), type => "bool", val => \$self->{address}{skip_zeroconf}, advanced 
=> 1 }),
        ),
    ];
}

I don't suppose FIXME is some indication ?!?!?! What is zeroconf ?

Many thanks,
Owen

On Friday 09 February 2007 22:55, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, OS wrote:
> > Well, I've tried encoding a manual IP adress, netmask, gateway and DNS
> > server 1.
> >
> > The WiFi AP is 192.168.0.1, my assigned IP address is 192.168.0.2. The
> > netmask is 255.255.0.0, the gateway is 192.168.0.1 and the first DNS
> > server is 192.168.0.1
> >
> > The NetApplet applet now shows a connected interface and shows a good
> > signal strength.
>
> So far so good.
>
> > route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     10     0     
> >   0 eth0 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     10     0  
> >      0 eth0 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     35    
> > 0        0 ath0 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     35 
> >    0        0 ath0 0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG   
> > 10     0        0 eth0 0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG
> >    35     0        0 ath0
>
> Herein there is a problem. You seem to have two interfaces connected
> to the same network 192.168.x.x --- these are eth0 and ath0.
>
> Since the eth0 entry is higher in the table it will take prcedence.
> Try to DOWN the eth0 interface and see what happens.
> 	ifdown eth0
> should do it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kapil.
> --