[ltp] Cisco Aironet 350 Mini PCI on an R40 running SuSE 9

Jeffrey Taylor linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:53:34 -0600


Quoting Mike Evans <mike@public.arl.arizona.edu>:
> Thanks for all the advice.
> 
> Well, I've had some success.  I'm not sure what did it (possible setting 
> my router's authentication to "open") but I can now:
> 1) see my router (get it's MAC)
> 2) authenticate my key
> 3) grab an IP via DHCP
> 4) ping the router and boxes in my network
> 
> When I try to ping an outside IP, I get
> connetc: Network is unreachable
> 
> I've disabled iptables on the laptop and I can't see anything in the 
> Router's setup that would be restricting it from passing packets (and 
> booting into Win XP reveals that the wireless does work on that side).
> 
> I feel like I'm so close to getting this to work... any final pieces of 
> advice?
> 

Check the routing tables, i.e., run "route".  The default gateway
should point to the router's LAN IP address.

HTH,
  Jeffrey