Thanks for the ideas guys will try them out as soon as get home, whats really confusing me is eveything is fine when wired but I cant get past the router when wireless. Wireless must be working because I can get TO the router.
Is it possible I have got different routing configs for the two cards? Can that happen in Linux? How would I check? As far as I can tell in YAST they are the same. The wireless card is a Proxim OEM unit which I believe uses the PrismII chips. I have cancelled encryption at the moment and anyway as I say I CAN get to the router with wireless so i cant see that being the problem? ??? (scratches head) On Thursday 28 August 2003 07:12, you wrote: > Hi, > > Try double checking your encryption key. If memory serves, linksys numbers > their keys 1 - 4, and in linux, the wep keys are numbered 0 - 3. I think it > took me a week to realize this the first time I set up my wireless at home. > I was using key "3" on the router, and should have been using "2" in linux. > > This was causing the same symptoms as you describe, looks like you are > connected, but really you are not. Are you using DHCP at home? > > What wireless card are you using? > > Robert Toole > Systems Engineer > USCO Logistics / Calgary > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Bourassa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Wireless router problems > > Peter Pankonin wrote: > > On August 27, 2003 08:53 pm, you wrote: > >>Any suggestions People? > > > > I had a similar problem with a linksys WPC11 card and a Linksys AP. I > > could > > > connect to the router, but could not connect to the internet. iwconfig > > showed > > > that the router & my laptop were communicating because packets were going > > out > > > and comming in, but I couldn't ping the router or anything else. I did > > some > > > research and someone on a list somewhere said something about empty > > packets? > > > This isn't going to be much help...but one day, all of a sudden, it > > started > > > working and has been working fine ever since. I didn't do anything (that > > I > > > > know of or change anything in the router config)...strange. Still don't > > know > > > why it wasn't working at first. > > Try turning everything off (pc and router), wait 5 seconds, and power up > again. -- Graham "A person is smart. People are dumb, dangerous, panicky animals and you know it." Agent K, Men in Black.
