I had similar problems, and found it to be a problem with 802.11X authentication. Turning it off seemed to help.
On August 28, 2003 09:41 am, you wrote: > 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. -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 Website: www.fromthecrosstothethrone.com
