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.) I've looked at the Yast settings for the card but can't find anything relevant, and my firewall is as far as I know disabled. And other computers connected to the router work fine. Anyone know what the problem might be? Thanks == 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.)
I've looked at the Yast settings for the card but can't find anything relevant, and my firewall is as far as I know disabled. And other computers connected to the router work fine.
Anyone know what the problem might be?
Thanks ==
Paul
Standard reply of what does the output of the following show, when run as root? ifconfig route -n And is this DHCP or static? Stan
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
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