Arun K. Khan wrote:
As Dinesh has pointed out 'lo' is a loopback interface with address 127.0.0.1. BTW, which live CD gave 'lo' the properties of a wireless device?
If "ifconfig -a" displays only the 'lo' interface then none of your network devices have been loaded. FYI, ethernet NIC's get loaded as eth0, eth1 ..., Wireless NICs get loaded as wlan0, wlan1, ....
I know about the loopback localhost 127.0.0.1 thing. I even use it in the /etc/hosts file to cut out bad and ad websites. I am only reporting what I saw. There was a network icon in the task bar with active tx/rx connection. On right clicking it, it had the name 'lo'. I was expecting eth0 but that was not the case. We did not go to ifconfig as we were worried about security or intrusion so we simply rebooted. It had already done 300kbytes. It was a Ubuntu 5.10 live CD. If anyone else has a lappy with the same card, they can try this cd. The client is in imp/ex and his data was too precious to take any risks.
Regards,
Rony.
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