On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 14:02 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 18:42 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

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Having both eth0 and wlan0 active at the same time on the same network can cause routing problems. Disable the eth0 config and use only the wlan0 connection and see what happens.

I've read before that two interfaces on the same network can cause routing problems, but I'd no taken into account it in this case. Sorry. wlan0 seems it doesn't work.

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Use rcnetwork restart to try and reset the routing tables. Show us the results of route -n as well with only the wlan0 active.

Once I disable eth0 (ifdown eth0), route -n shows:

citlali:~ # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo citlali:~ #

rcnetwork restart brings up eth0 interface. I'm guessing some more previous steps are needed to prevent the interface to bring up after this command. In any case, after a rcnetwork restart and a ifdown eth0 the route -n output is the same.

I get this results with the same configuration that tells me...

citlali:~ # ifstatus wlan0 wlan0 device: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface wlan0 dhcpcd is still waiting for data wlan0 is up 5: wlan0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:12:17:df:d9:24 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::212:17ff:fedf:d924/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever Configured routes for interface wlan0: default 192.168.1.100 - -

0 of 1 configured routes for interface wlan0 up wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"citlali" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=4096 B Fragment thr=4096 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Several Windows boxes are getting IPs without problems from the same access point.

Please, what else could I try. Of course my skills are poor, but it really getting hard to have this wifi card up and running!

I use ifplugd on the eth0 connection and on hotplug on wlan0. Using this setup I can unplug eth0 which causes the eth0 connection to shut down and then plug in the PCMCIA card which brings up wlan0, both using DHCP which retrieves an address and sets up the correct default route. Check to make sure you have the proper info set if you are using encryption on the wireless card (this can also be set using YaST with the wireless card). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com