So, I'm finally setting up a home network, and I think I got the AP set up okay for now, and my orinoco card is recognized by redhat 7.3 on my laptop, but I'm doing something stupid and wrong, b/c it's just not working. I can offer some clues from the packet info from the AP when I re-activate the wirless card, but I cannot ping or otherwise reach any network addresses. When I bring up eth1, the pc card (rj45 nic built-in is eth0, which I've been leaving down), three packets are recieved by the AP, with no retries: one to ether, one to ppp, and one to the AP itself (says the "Forwarding Counts" page)... I believe I have set the gateway, netmask and device IP addresses correctly, and I'm accessing the AP via telnet and http over the LAN. There is an option to turn DHCP on, but it seems to be only for the AP to get its IP over ether; when I tried to get the laptop to request an IP it didn't get any, but then again it might not have been broadcasting right. I've tried changing to both, also, using both ifconfig and the redhat-config-network droid, no luck. Can someone tell me about how ifconfig, iwconfig, and iwpriv are supposed work together? I have set up the mode, channel, essid, and even MAC address to match, and the client (laptop) is recognized by the AP, but is not sending any packets. So close, yet so far... Also wondering what air net-monitoring tools people are liking, rsvp. -- -- Ben Barrett
