Re: [SLUG] Wireless network problem possibly DHCP?

From: Aaron Steimle (asteimle@washpat.com)
Date: Sat Feb 21 2004 - 22:14:00 EST


Have you tried setting the Gateway using Yast?

Russ Wright wrote:
> Hello Sluggers!
> I need some help fixing a networking problem. The network funcitons properly
> under Windows so I know the hardware is working. The problem seems to be
> linux specific. I have a wireless network in my house and I cannot get
> outside of my local area network. I am running Suse 9.0 pro and have a
> Linksys WUSB11 ver 2.6 wireless nic. I am using the at76c503 - linux driver
> for Atmel at76c503 based usb wlan adapters.
> http://at76c503a.berlios.de/
>
> I can hotplug the wireless nic and it is detected and the driver modules load
> properly. I confirmed this by doing
> #>lsmod
> Module Size Used by Tainted: P
> at76c503-rfmd 39360 0 (unused)
> usbdfu 7820 0 [at76c503-rfmd]
> at76c503 49824 0 [at76c503-rfmd]
>
> I then confirm the device is recognized and do a #> iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
> eth1 ATMEL RFMD503A ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"linksys"
> Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:06:25:55:C9:FD
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s
> RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
> Encryption key:off
> Link Quality:100 Signal level:65 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> So I issued an #>ifup eth1
> warning: using NO encryption
> ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 nick linux' returned
> Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
> SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
> Starting DHCP Client Daemon on eth1... . IP/Netmask: 192.168.1.102 /
> 255.255.255.0
>
> The error messages are no biggie the important part is that I get an IP
> address.
>
> I also check the config:
> #> ifconfig
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:19:9A:3C
> inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fe19:9a3c/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:6763 (6.6 Kb) TX bytes:5274 (5.1 Kb)
>
>
> When I issue #> route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
>
> Notice the missing gateway I cannot get outside my local area network. If I
> manually add the route then it works.
>
> # route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
>
> So any Ideas on the problem?
>
>
>
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