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Re: [SLE] One-way transmission problem (with wireless card)
- From: "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:39:09 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511071038.06055.abrahams@xxxxxxx>
On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:54 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
> On Sunday 06 November 2005 6:56 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> > After some angst I've managed to get my wireless card working, sort of,
> > with my laptop. (The key to the kingdom is ndiswrapper.) However, it
> > seems to have only one-way transmission to the Net. If I ping my router,
> > I get the normal echo response. But if I ping anything in the outside
> > world (like yahoo.com), the message goes out (the nameservers even find
> > the right IP address) but nothing -- nothing -- ever comes back.
> > Similarly, I can't look at any web pages on the Net. (This is with SuSE
> > 10.0.)
>
> Standard reply of what does the output of the following show, when run as
> root?
> ifconfig
> route -n
Thanks, Stan -- that let me find the problem. I'm using DHCP and had the
wrong gateway address. I had forgotten that choosing DHCP doesn't set the
gateway. Works fine now.
Paul
> On Sunday 06 November 2005 6:56 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> > After some angst I've managed to get my wireless card working, sort of,
> > with my laptop. (The key to the kingdom is ndiswrapper.) However, it
> > seems to have only one-way transmission to the Net. If I ping my router,
> > I get the normal echo response. But if I ping anything in the outside
> > world (like yahoo.com), the message goes out (the nameservers even find
> > the right IP address) but nothing -- nothing -- ever comes back.
> > Similarly, I can't look at any web pages on the Net. (This is with SuSE
> > 10.0.)
>
> Standard reply of what does the output of the following show, when run as
> root?
> ifconfig
> route -n
Thanks, Stan -- that let me find the problem. I'm using DHCP and had the
wrong gateway address. I had forgotten that choosing DHCP doesn't set the
gateway. Works fine now.
Paul
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