Thanks for the response cts.
I don't think I'll be able to get out today to go pick up a router to test that, but if I'm following what you are saying, its that someone could turn on the MAC address filtering on a router, then later turn it off but the router doesn't really turn it off? So thats why I'd need to try a brand new one that hasn't been messed with at all? And then if I find that the new router works, that means I have to switch routers? And not use MAC filtering anymore?
Since I won't be able to try that today, I looked at the second solution you posted and I got very different results for apt-cache madison hal:
beridel@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache madison hal
hal | 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8 |
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
hal | 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu7 |
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
hal | 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu7 |
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
hal | 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8 |
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
It looks like the same version number with a bunch of repository urls or something, but without any of the other lines that your output had. And it says I'm all up to date at this point (using a cat5 connection).
As for downgrading to a previous NM, I'm on the amd64 build so that package won't work for me and the 6.6.0 package for the 64 bit build looks to be the current one and the one I have installed now:
beridel@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache madison network-manager
network-manager | 0.6.6-0ubuntu5 |
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
network-manager | 0.6.6-0ubuntu5 |
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
So I'm not sure what to do in regards to the second option.
Thanks again for the response.