I installed Fedora 7 and got wifi working on Linux for the first time today. I'm able to successfully connect to my router when there is no WEP. However, when I turn WEP on something strange happens.

My laptop gets a local 192 IP, and I am able to ping both the router and my desktop (which is also hooked up wirelessly to the same network). However, I cannot load any webpages or ping any outside website/IP.

I'm posting this message right now from my desktop which is connected under the same circumstances, however it is working normally. Any ideas?

Sounds like the laptop has no default gateway defined.. can access all local but nothing outside local..


route -n to view your currently defined, default gateway.. (should be the IP address of the router)

Hmm well that started off good but then I'm not sure what happened. My card got stuck in 802.11A so I rebooted. Now when I type route -n, there are no numbers at all and I can't connect to anything.

Sounds like your wireless card didn't initialize this time....