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> )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: |
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> > I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless |
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> > MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using |
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> > my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but |
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> > I |
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> Try shutting it down, remove power (actually unplug it - most moderm |
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> MB's stay live when supposedly off) |
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> Wait 10 minutes and apply power and boot. |
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> Its probable the hardware and software are now confused and need a clean |
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> start. |
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> BillK |
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> Like I said, I can use the wireless card just fine in other operating |
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systems if I reboot, so it's not hardware. I did give your solution a go, |
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but no such luck. |
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The problem is that when the MAC address was randomly changed, it's given me |
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an IP address assigned to the region near Marina del Rey, California. As it |
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turns out, I'm in Tokyo, and probably my wireless router is not happy about |
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talking to the wireless IP my computer insists to assign itself. |
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I've been trying to configure it all manually, since that way maybe I can |
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assign myself a more reasonable IP address, and then if I later use wicd or |
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NetworkManager it won't try to use the bad address. On accident I brought |
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up wifi0 with no configurations, and you can see what it's doing |
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* Bringing up interface wifi0 |
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* No configuration specified; defaulting to DHCP |
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* dhcp ... |
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* Running dhcpcd ... |
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wifi0: dhcpcd 4.0.2 starting |
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wifi0: broadcasting for a lease |
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wifi0: timed out |
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wifi0: probing for an IPV4LL address |
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wifi0: checking 169.254.62.179 is available on attached networks |
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wifi0: using IPv4LL address |
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169.254.62.179 [ ok ] |
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* received address 169.254.62.179/16 |
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I'm not concerned if you have this IP, because this is the non-functional |
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California IP that my computer continues to assign itself in Gentoo. Is |
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there a way to reset my IPv4 LL address? Clearly the computer stored this |
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IP address somewhere and it needs to be wiped, or replaced with something |
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more suitable for this network. |
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~daid |
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