wireless question

[1richard]

is this my problem on lsusb is shows 2 wlan0's the second one I have never seen before, can anyone tell me what wlan0:ava means. Is this why the stars on wlassistant are greyed out and keeps me from connecting to router.

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:58:96:55
inet6 addr: fe80::214:a5ff:fe58:9655/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:111705 (109.0 KiB)

wlan0:ava Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:58:96:55
inet addr:169.254.6.104 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

[jankushka]

Re: wireless question

see if these help:

man avahi-autoipd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)