Wireless Networking Problem

beserkjay · 05-27-2006, 04:33 PM

Ok I just got my wireless card working with some open source drivers from www.madwifi.org

My problem is I can't get an ip address assigned by my router. If I set up my ip address and mask manually, I can ping all the computers on my network and the router. But when I try to open a web page it can't be found. Its like I can't get out of my network through the router...

Any suggestions?

DrEwMoNeY · 05-27-2006, 04:37 PM

If you get your IP by DHCP you could try:

dhcpcd interface#

example: dhcpcd wlan0

Good luck

DrEwMoNeY · 05-27-2006, 04:39 PM

Your's might be ath0

dhcpcd ath0

try looking by typing

iwconfig

Brian1 · 05-27-2006, 04:46 PM

If setting up IP manually then you need to add your providers DNS IP to /etc/resolv.conf or use one of the network configuration tools. If not sure then usually you can use your routers internal IP as the DNS server IP. Many automatically reroute to the real assigned DNS for the link.

Brian1

DrEwMoNeY · 05-27-2006, 04:57 PM

Sorry, for some strange reason I "automatically" skipped past the word "manually"

beserkjay · 05-27-2006, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian1

If setting up IP manually then you need to add your providers DNS IP to /etc/resolv.conf or use one of the network configuration tools. If not sure then usually you can use your routers internal IP as the DNS server IP. Many automatically reroute to the real assigned DNS for the link.

Brian1

How do I find this information out?

Ah i tried dhcpcd ath0 and it worked!

I wonder why dhclient ath0 didnt...

Thanks anyway guys

cwwilson721 · 05-27-2006, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beserkjay

How do I find this information out?

Ah i tried dhcpcd ath0 and it worked!

I wonder why dhclient ath0 didnt...

Thanks anyway guys

dhclient was superceded in Slackware by dhcpcd.

You may want to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf with your info. (Will do it automagically after that)