[OFB Cafe] that having been said . . .

[Derek Broughton]

On July 21, 2008 00:32:20 dep wrote:

> however, if i go to kcontrol after ifup wlan0 has gone to sleep but is
> running in some fashion, it tells me that i have an enabled wireless
> network device on dhcp with an address of -- this seems a little odd --
> 169.254.7.20, which is not exactly in the 192.168.xx.xx family.

That's the #$%^&*() zeroconf (avahi) which gives you a zeroconf address 
whenever DHCP fails.  Windows does the same thing, but it seems to work under 
windows.  In Kubuntu it's just a damned pain.
-- 
derek