> Hi again,
>
> On Monday 16 July 2001 22:27, you wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ihab A Awad (CBC) wrote:
> >
> > - I am trying to get my Dell laptop to work with a Lucent
> 802.11b PCMCIA
> > - card ... but, per the syslog, my DHCP requests failed.
> >
> > Try using pump from the command line:
> > # pump --hostname=<hostname> --interface=eth0
> >
> > - I then tried to configure the interface manually ...
> >
> > You need to add an IP address here:
> > # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.NNN netmask 255.255.255.0
> >
> > If you have tcpdump installed, start it in
> > another window to watch the progess of the transaction.
>
> Okay, here's what I've done so far, and the results.
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.130 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:1D:F0:D6:0A
> inet addr:192.168.1.130 Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# iwconfig eth0
> eth0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"linksys"
> Nickname:"akudo.localdomain"
> Frequency:2.437GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Managed
> Access Point: 00:04:5A:CF:AD:85
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Power Management:off
> Link quality:62/92 Signal level:-34 dBm Noise
> level:-96 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
> Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
> 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0
> 0 0 lo
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# route add -host 192.168.1.1 eth0
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# route add -net 192.168.1.0 gw 192.168.1.1 netmask
> 255.255.255.0
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
> Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0
> 0 0 eth0
> 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0
> 0 0 eth0
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
> 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0
> 0 0 lo
>
> [root@akudo ihab]# ping 192.168.1.1
> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) from 192.168.1.130 : 56(84)
> bytes of data.
> >From 192.168.1.130: Destination Host Unreachable
> >From 192.168.1.130: Destination Host Unreachable
> >From 192.168.1.130: Destination Host Unreachable
> < ... repeated ... >
>
> At this point, the green LED on the card is steady,
> indicating (?) a good
> connnection. Below is the status page from my Linksys router,
> containing all
> the relevant setup, converted from HTML to text. Once again,
> any help is
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you and peace,
>
> Ihab Awad
Are you blocking pings from 192.168.1.1 through a firewall? Did you try
pinging an IP address beyond 192.168.1.1 (like google.com)? Can you ping
localhost?
Forrest
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