On Monday 22 May 2006 4:24 pm, Lugg William H Civ 309 SMXG/MXDCE wrote:
I am in the process of attempting to get a NetGear WG311T to work on a SuSE 10.0 x86_64 installation. I've read the posts that indicate if I install thekernel-nonGPL package, the card works out of the box. But this wasn't my experience. I never could get it to work using the products delivered through Yast. So, I downloaded the MadWifi driver and went through the First Time User HOWTO and everything seemed to go well. However, when I attempt to contact another IP with a ping, I get the following back:
compaq:/usr/local/madwifi-ng # ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.100 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable I assume that you have set a dynamic IP, and that 192.168.1.100 was assigned by the router to the wifi card. It does appear that your wireless card is working, otherwise you would not have the 192.168.1.100 address assigned.
The next step is the routing table:
run the command, netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
One thing I found is that if you have both wired and wireless set up that
the routing table is not set up properly. One way to fix this temporarily
is:
bring up a root shell
then type:
ifdown eth0
ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0
This should cause both the routing table to be rebuilt as well as the
the /etc/resolv.conf
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Jerry Feldman