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spasmous2...
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:33 pm
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I'm new to Linux and just got an EEEPC Linux computer. I was unable to
connect to the internet via wireless - I kept getting the error ra0
already configured, something like that. After some searching on
google and trial and error I found that typing the command "sudo
ifdown ra0" in the termnial then trying to connect worked. I'm such a
noob, I don't know what the command does but does anyone recognize the
problem here? Is there a fix other than me typing this thing in every
time? Thanks.
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propman...
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:55 pm
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spasmous2 <spasmous at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in news:a4f8a22f-7f58-4603-a37f-
bbcb7b0fd8ba at (no spam) l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

Quote:
I'm new to Linux and just got an EEEPC Linux computer. I was unable to
connect to the internet via wireless - I kept getting the error ra0
already configured, something like that. After some searching on
google and trial and error I found that typing the command "sudo
ifdown ra0" in the termnial then trying to connect worked. I'm such a
noob, I don't know what the command does but does anyone recognize the
problem here? Is there a fix other than me typing this thing in every
time? Thanks.

"Sudo" allows you to make system changes as an "administrator"

"ifdown" is a command that will turn wireless activity off
"ifup" is it's counterpart

"ra0" is the system name for the wireless device


Have you tried looking at this site?

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=43676
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