RaLink wireless

[chili555]

It's just a development server on a netbook. Is the 'static' thing still important?

Once you have the server running headless (no windowing manager) and you want to ssh into it to tweak your apache settings or ftp some content on to it, how do you know what it's IP address is when you, from another machine, do:

ssh -l user 192.168.i.dont.know

Servers very seldom have a display and keyboard attached, so they are usually set up with static IPs.

[woodsonoversoul]

Changing /etc/network/interfaces to:

auto lo
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-essid ourhouse
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface lo inet loopback

and restarting the network with 'sudo etc/init.d/networking restart'

returns:

*Reconfiguring network interfaces...
SIOCDELRT: No such process

I'm looking into it...

[chili555]

Let's clean it up a bit:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-essid ourhouse

iface eth0 inet dhcp

Now, restart networking:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Any complaints or errors?

Did you determine if the network is WPA encrypted? If so, that needs to be addressed in your file. Here is a good tutorial: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834

[woodsonoversoul]

I am getting some errors, but I've got to run. I'll post them in a couple of hours. Thanks for all your help so far, and yes, it is WPA encrypted.

[woodsonoversoul]

Edited interfaces to match what was posted. Restarting the network produces the following (twice)

* Reconfiguring network interfaces...
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.

[chili555]

When you do:

iwconfig ra0

Does the mode read something other than 'Managed?' If so, please do:

sudo iwconfig ra0 mode managed
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Do you still get the error?

[woodsonoversoul]

Mode is

Mode:Auto

Changing it now...

[woodsonoversoul]

Still get the same error with:

There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 1536
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium
All rights reserved
For info blah blah blah

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:54:08:52:8c
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:54:08:52:8c
Sending on Socket/fallback

and then the original message again

[woodsonoversoul]

Trying to change the mode didn't do anything. mode is still 'auto'. Have tried it multiple times...

[chili555]

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-essid ourhouse

Can you please proofread this carefully? Please be sure, in your router that the address is not within the range of the DHCP server. That is, that if the router assigns up to 10 addresses from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.11, then your static address needs to be outside this range; 192.168.1.25, for example. You will have to check in the router. Some set 50 addresses, so guessing could still cause a collision.

Also, make sure netmask is correct; not network.