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WPC54G Connects to the router but not the net

I am installing a Linksys WPC54G on SuSE 9.2 with ndiswrapper, and I got it to recognise my wireless router, but the problem now is that when I type:

Code:

ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com

I get

Code:

ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com

Any ideas? I know my WEP key is right, but I may not have the ifcfg-wlan0 file configured. Here it is:

Code:

BOOTPROTO='dhcp'

MTU=''

REMOTE_IPADDR=''

STARTMODE='auto'

USERCONTROL='no'

WIRELESS_AP='linksys'

WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='WPA_PSK'

WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'

WIRELESS_CHANNEL='6'

WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'

WIRELESS_ESSID='linksys'

WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''

WIRELESS_KEY='**************************'

WIRELESS_KEY_0='**************************'

WIRELESS_KEY_1=''

WIRELESS_KEY_2=''

WIRELESS_KEY_3=''

WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'

WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'

WIRELESS_NICK=''

WIRELESS_NWID=''

WIRELESS_POWER='yes'

WIRELESS_WPA_PSK='**************************'

_nm_name='static-0'

I pasted my 128 WEP key (starred out because my parents would shoot me if I pasted the actual key, even though I admin the router) in several places just in case. The

WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE variable is the one that I think is the troublesome one, but if anyone knows otherwise, let me know.

-Peter

Well, if you have associated with the access point, please post the output of both 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig'. When posting the output of iwconfig, don't forget to obfuscate your key again, please.

Ok, here's iwconfig:

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



sit0      no wireless extensions.



wlan0    IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"linux"

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0C:41:BE:6F:5B

          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s  Tx-Power:25 dBm

          RTS thr=2347 B  Fragment thr=2346 B

          Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-**  Security mode:restricted

cted

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-36 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:656  Missed beacon:0

and ifconfig:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:16:8B:EE

          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::290:96ff:fe16:8bee/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:15492 errors:232 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:232

          TX packets:3 errors:13667 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:30529

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:16495765 (15.7 Mb)  TX bytes:679 (679.0 b)

          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1400



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:18910 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:18910 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:2206937 (2.1 Mb)  TX bytes:2206937 (2.1 Mb)



wlan0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:17:3D:EE:88

          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::212:17ff:fe3d:ee88/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:1372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:87818 (85.7 Kb)  TX bytes:12116 (11.8 Kb)

          Interrupt:11 Memory:10800000-10801fff

Hope it means something...

-Peter

Looks like you are associated and have an IP, which is very good. Is your hardwired network card (eth0) connected to anything? If not, try 'ifconfig eth0 down' and then try to ping again.

I had the same trouble with this card on Suse 9.2. I figured out that I had to set the DNS and Routing info even tho I had it set to get that info from dhcp. For me this setting was easy Network Device or DNS and Hostname modules in Yast. Hope this helps. I only found this out because KInternet told me it couldnt find any DNS or routing info.

get ping to the internet directly working first, rather than use DNS as its adds a whole layer of potential problems.

Try 158.152.1.65 which is Demons primary DNS server, its always there.

If this fails you have a routing problem so forget DNS for the second.

If you can ping your internet router which I'm guessing is 192.168.1.1 then probably the problem is that the Wireless software seems to have trouble translating the Default Gateway provided by DHCP to a default route in the routing table. If you do 'route' you'll probably find that 0.0.0.0 is missing.

If so do 'route add default gateway 192.168.1.1' and it should all work.

My eth0 is working fine, in fact my other posts were made using the eth0 device, but the problem is the wlan0. I also have other wireless computers working on the network.

-Peter

Ok, I scrapped SuSE 9.3 on my laptop, but.... I just installed it on my mom's laptop, and I can connect to the internet, 64.233.161.104 brings me to google in my browser, and I can ping other sites, but..... I can't use DNS. I'm smart enough to read what you said about DNS, but I have no idea how to configure it. As always any help appreciated.

Thanks,
-Peter