[avahi] help with avahi-browse please

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Sun Jan 27 20:22:34 PST 2008


Hi Dave,

On 28/01/2008, at 1:09 PM, Dave Lazar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am still trying to figure out how to get avahi-browse on my  
> workstation to find the server on my network. I have just tested a  
> second workstation booting Ubuntu 7.10 (the same as my problem  
> machine) on the network and it sees the server services fine. The  
> difference is in the networking. The machine working is wired and  
> all the services discovered and visible via browsing show up tied to  
> eth0. My other non-working machine is wireless, uses wlan0 as the  
> wireless network connection via wicd.
>
> Is there some way to debug this issue? I have no firewall running on  
> either machine. For some reason, my wireless laptop running Ubuntu  
> 7.10 just refuses to discover any outside network services. I can  
> browse the server using Samba OK.. SSH... just not avahi???
>
> Comparing the avahi-daemon.conf files - they are the same. avahi- 
> daemon is running on both. The workstation with wired eth0 and DHCP  
> works, the laptop with wireless (via Wicd) and wlan0 and DHCP  
> refuses to browse....

It is a very common problem for the chipset not to support multicast  
properly causing this problem.

Please try a different wireless card (perhaps a USB one, etc) and this  
problem will likely go away.

There isn't really anything you can do about this unless you fix the  
hardware/driver.

Trent


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