On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 10:51, James Philp wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to get Netgear card to work and have been making some progress (thanks to those who replied). Now the link lights are flashing and I can ping the card but I don't seem to be able to ping anything outside. Since I can't use Yast it probably has something to do with the way it is configured in relation to the router. Does someone have use the Netgear MR814 and tell me how they configured their card to work with it
here is what i get
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:21:AC:05 inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe21:ac05/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4800
can someone tell me if this is right or if something doesn't look right here!
James, When you say that you can ping the card, but nothing outside, what exactly do you mean? Can you ping your Netgear router 192.168.0.1 or your modem or your ISP? When you try and ping the router what is the error message. If the error says the "Network is Unreachable" then your problem is probably with the DHCP set-up. Did you enter "dhcpcd wlan0" before you tried to ping. The information you have provided above indicates that this pcmcia card is not the only computer that is accessing the router, unless you have fixed the IP at 192.168.0.4. Can your other computers access the Netgear router and the internet. Have you used one of the other computers and mozilla to set up the router and particularly the wireless set-up menu. Until you get a connection between the pcmcia card and the router it would be easiest if you - make sure the WEP is turned off, - make sure that the pcmcia card and the router are using the same ESSID, - make sure the router will accept new wireless connections, - make sure that the router and pcmcia card are both using the same mode. My limited wireless knowledge is guessing the since wlan0 has an IP of 19.2.168.0.4 that pcmcia and router are exchanging information at some level, you just need to clean up the interface. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01