Hi,
I have an SMC wi-fi card (the model is not relevant, as it get's detected).

I am running suse linux 9.3 pro on a HP nx9020 laptop and the wireless card activates upon hotplug, furthermore it even detects the wireless network and connects to it(so iwconfig says), but I cannot ping anything, not even the wireless router and the external internet is also unaccessible.

Is there a separate resolv.conf for wireless cards? Because the default route is set correctly for eth1 a d eth0 the same way, but eth0 works ok.

Has anyone faced this problem?

Thanks

Can you post ifconfig? Are you using dhcp or static ip?

The ifconfig reply:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:42:82:2A
inet addr:192.168.62.52 Bcast:192.168.62.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe42:822a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1400 Metric:1
RX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:36271 (35.4 Kb) TX bytes:18850 (18.4 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:E2:B3:8C:8D
inet addr:192.168.62.53 Bcast:192.168.62.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::204:e2ff:feb3:8c8d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1400 Metric:1
RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:886 (886.0 b) TX bytes:1868 (1.8 Kb)
Interrupt:11

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I am using static ips. The wireless ip is 192.168.62.53 and for wired it is 192.168.62.52, the ips are not an issue, since xp works with these ips on the same box.

One problem I see is that both interfaces are configured for the same network (192.168.62.x), and have the same metric. This will cause problems with routing.

Are you using both interfaces at the same time? What are they used for? (i.e. home network vs internet)

Good news though, you do have packets being received and transmitted on both interfaces, so they are both up. Looks like just a routing issue.

I need both of them to access the internet and the home network. The same network, I think, is ok, because they work with the same router and I can assign these kind of ips. Using them at the same time is not necessary, so making them work separately will also be ok (wireless doesn't work even when eth0 is offline).

Any suggestions regarding routing?

OK, so you can access the internet and local network throuth eth0 (your wired network card) and want to be able to do the same with the wireless (using one or the other)?

If so, you should be able to ifconfig eth0 down and have eth1 work just fine. What is the result of route?

Yes, it does work with eth0 down, stupid me, last time I just unplugged the cable from eth0, but I should have switched it off.
Thanks, now wireless works.

good deal!

I have an HP ZE5470us laptop with a Broadcom WLAN connecting to a D-Link Di-514 wireless roughter. I use WEP encription and Win-XP has not problems talking to this connection.

I have decided to become a Linux user and break free from Microsoft. I installed Linspire Five-0 and it detected my network card. It shows me a signal but no matter what configuration I have tried will it connect to this network. I have the right WEP code in there and created a profile. Tried almost every option and it still refuses to connect.

I can connect directly with my Ethernet but not the WIFI. Please help!

Bruce