Hi. I'm running Mandrake Linux 10.1 and i'm connected to my network (a router) with a wireless device. I have a perfect connection to the network, however, I can't connect to the Internet. Under windows, I can just set the router (192.168.1.1) as the gateway. What do I do here..? Please, I'm desperate!

In your /etc/resolve.conf file you need to put in the nameservers.

Syntax is as follows:
You need at least one, you can have as many as you'd like. I recommend at least two. You should be able to get them from the router status information as you probably want to use your ISP's nameservers.



BTW... if you using DHCP to get your address with the linux box it should do this automatically. Unless your router isn't giving out the information for some reason.

Okay. Yeah, I'm using DHCP at the moment. So it should do that. But when I've established a connection to the router with wireless, I don't have any internet access. I might note that I also have another net interface (eth0) which isn't connected to anything, does this affect my net connection?

Can you give us the output of ifconfig -a please?

The output of ipconfig -a is:

eth0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:30:64:B9
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e6ff:fe30:64b9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000

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:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11088 (10.8 Kb) TX bytes:11088 (10.8 Kb)

ra0

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:B0:17:E3
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:feb0:17e3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:557 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:43601 (42.5 Kb) TX bytes:1548 (1.5 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000

sit0

Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I might note that ra0 is the wireless device and eth0 is the ethernet card which isn't wired to anything.

Did you remember to set your gateway. The following should do it:

route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev ra0

That will ensure that your wireless device is used. If that doesn't work, post the output of the route command (with no arguments).

Maybe you should stop eth0 in linux.

I'm not sure what I did... but it works now. Thanks to everyone for helping out. You're stars.