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I have been using Slackware 9 for a while now.
I have been connecting to the net via my built-in network card (eth0) with no problems, and my wireless (eth1) with no problems.
I now have another wireless network I wish to connect to. The first one has no WEP encryption and worked out of the box with no configuration problems.
The second wireless network uses WEP 128.
I have used iwconfig to set the WEP key, and furthermore the router it connects to states that it accepted a connection from my IP address.
The weird part is this:
I can ping the router.
I can ping IPs on the net.
I *cannot* ping yahoo.com (etc...)
I *cannot* ping other computers on the same router.
I am fairly certain that I am correctly configured w.r.t the router. I think the computer I am trying to ping on the router may be blocking due to a firewall.
What baffles me is that yahoo.com will not ping, but that the IP corresponding to it will.
The following is my route output:
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
lookback default entry
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth1
192.168.0.1 is indeed the correct gateway.
Obviously the inability to resolve yahoo.com etc... is causing browsing the net not to work.
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