my router hates me

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Robert Holtzman wrote:

> I'm starting a new thread because of a new problem.
>
> After getting wireless running for a few days I suddenly can't connect
> the laptop wirelessly (is that a word?). At first the attempt stalled at
> getting the ip address.Just now it stalled at authentication. I tried
> resetting the router and reloading the configuration that used to work.
> No luck. The only way the router will connect is hard wired from either
> the router or the modem.
>
> Now the fun part. The desktop box will not connect when hardwired to the
> router, only when wired to the modem, even though the laptop will. This
> one stalls at getting the ip address.
>
> To repeat, all settings were those that worked for 2-3 days.
>
> Laptop is a Dell Latitude running Ubuntu 8.04 and wicd. The desktop runs
> the same s/w.
>
> In the 10 yrs or so using Linux (Redhat 6.0 and 7.3, fc 8 and 9, Debian
> 4.0 and 5.0) I have never had so much trouble as this, my first attempt
> at networking.
>
> This list has been quite a bit of help in the past. I'm hoping someone
> can point me in the right direction now.

Forgot to include in my post that the router is a Linksys WRT54GL 
running the latest Linksys firmware.

Sorry.

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