<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:33 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johneschultz.com">john@johneschultz.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Markus, thank you for the assist.<br><br>I thought just by declaring the card in the interfaces file was enough to make it active. </blockquote><div>infact the card is/was somewhat active (actively consuming power for example) </div>
<div><br></div><div>you can compare its state with an ethernet interface without a cable plugged in.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What am I missing?</blockquote>
<div>many things,..<br><br>as every wireless thing, it needs not only to be powered up (and an ip address), but also wifi configuration.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I can ping the card so does that not mean its up and running?<br></blockquote><div>no, this proves nearly nothing (except that this ip address is configured (somewhere))</div><div><br>Markus </div></div>