I am having the same problem as kook except I'm using a wired connection
here is my route and route -n info
[root@localhost ~]# 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
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@localhost ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@localhost ~]#
and my ifconfig info
[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9
6:50:57
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:c9ff:fed6:5057/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2659 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2647 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1123560 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:424059 (414.1 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2864249 (2.7 MiB) TX bytes:2864249 (2.7 MiB)
[root@localhost ~]#
and when I type in route add default gw 192.168.1.1 I get the message SIOCADDRT: File exists so can anyone tell me something to try next please?