Klaas. wrote:

Hello, Well I am almost there (I think).

After lots of study I can now connect to my wireless lan. The system (Mac mini PPC with Airport) connects and openSuse 10.3 shows a connected system. Took me quite some time to find out how to provide the correct password to log in to my wireless network.

But... there is no response when I do a ping, not from the router or other systems on the Lan. When I connect the system with wire all is well I can reach all places locally as well as internet. The cable is quite long so I am still hoping to get wireless working. Do I need to open ports? Do I need some special routing info? I specified everything I could with Network Manager. Any setting apart from Network Manager that I must look into?

Any suggestions appreciated! Thank you.

Klaas Punt

Klass, I don't think you are actually connected. Are you saying that your wireless works, "except for ping", or are you saying wireless does NOT work "not even ping?" If you have wireless, except for ping, then the issue is most likely a firewall setting. If you have no wireless connection that is useful, then there is another problem with dhcp/dns services for the local wireless lan. For starters, if you have wireless "except for ping" disable the firewall (as root, "rcSuSEfirewall2 stop" if that fixes it, then you have a firewall problem. If you have no wireless capability when connected by wireless, post the output from the command line (either x-term or konsole will do), as root, of: # ifconfig # netstat -n # cat /etc/hosts # cat /etc/resolv.conf # rcSuSEfirewall2 status That will give us something to work intelligently with. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org