Through my questions posted here, it will soon be clear to you that I am new to Linux. Despite this, I have managed to install RedHat 9 on my Sony grt250 laptop, relatively easily. I even managed to get the built-in wireless card working, using madwifi on an atheros chipset. Even WEP works, hence I have no issues communicating with my router, allowing DHCP to work as well. I can also ping URL's, further showing that DNS works. Technically, I have no problems connecting to the Internet whatsoever.
However, when trying to traceroute to any valid URL, or IP for that matter, the trace times out at my router, which I find strange given that I can perform the same trace trough winXP on my laptop without a problem. What the trace returns is, along with some other info:
Here is my routing table, ifconfig for ath0 (the interface for wifi), and arp entries (although I think that does not matter that much). The MAC addresses were changed for obvious reasons.
[root@localhost root]# traceroute www__dot__google__dot__com (in its real form of course)
traceroute: Warning: www__dot__google__dot__com has multiple addresses; using 216.239.39.104traceroute to www__dot__google__dot__akadns__dot__net (216.239.39.104), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 3.914 ms 5.181 ms 4.960 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig ath0
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:50291 errors:313512 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5649
TX packets:5064 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:8053404 (7.6 Mb) TX bytes:946131 (923.9 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Memory:e0940000-e0950000
[root@localhost root]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 ath0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ath0
[root@localhost root]# arp
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface192.168.0.1 ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX C ath0
[root@localhost root]# iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.XXXGHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power
ff Sensitivity=0/3
Retry
ff RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Encryption mode
pen Power Management
ff
Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:51/154 Noise level:0/154
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Why traceroute does not work is a mystery to me. Any help that would allow me to perform this command would be greatly appreciated!
Sonajiso.
RedHat 9 and traceroute throught Madwifi WiFi
