I have a Windows XP Home SP2 laptop that works wirelessly, perfectly, with a Linksys WRT54G - I can ping the router on 192.168.1.1,access the router's config pages, and ping other PCs on the network: both wired and wirelessly.
Under Linux Slackware 10.2, kernel 2.6.15.6, the same machine can only do the above when wired to the router.
Any ideas?
Hi, If your wireless card is not Linux friendly, it's different story. Is your card properly configured with Linux? Google for what you need.
SOunds like the lap top wireless nic is not working under nix , what chp set is it ?
Odd that you told us what OSes, and what hardware you're connecting _to_ but didn't tell us what hardware you're trying to connect _with_, which is the really important bit. Only a few wireless NICs have native linux drivers. If yours doesn't, you can try ndiswrapper, but there's no guarantees.
Rule #1, when buying hardware for a linux system: make sure that everything you intend to use is supported _first_.
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Sorry all.
I have my wireless NICs working perfectly fine under Linux for my laptop (onboard BroadCom chipset) and my desktop (a generic 54Mbps PCI card, Marvell chipset) - both machines using NDISwrapper.
So, what might be stopping my laptop (and dedesktop) from pinging the router, and each other?
Something to do with the route command showing two default interfaces - localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0 default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
And here is the ping error: PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.106 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.106 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.106 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.106 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.106 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.106 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
.102 is the address of wlan0, the WiFi NIC, while .106 is the address of eth0, my first ethernet NIC.
Even though I am connected via .102, Linux is adopting .106 as the default route for ping.
Any ideas how to change this?
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