On Monday 19 December 2005 14:23, Rony Bill wrote:
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.
Something was surely fishy. Instead of relying on the GUI, you should've checked out the ip / mac address of the wireless interface. If it is lo then there is no way the wifi card was active. As I always stress, never believe the GUIs always use the command line to verify whether the GUI is telling you the truth or lying :P