[ltp] wireless config problem (TP40 SuSE 9.2 ipw2100)

[Tim Prince]

At 01:48 PM 12/5/2004, Eben King wrote:

>On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Tim Prince wrote:
>
> > At 12:56 PM 12/5/2004, Eben King wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Tim Prince wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 10:14 AM 12/5/2004, Eben King wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >If you can ping hosts on your LAN but not beyond, I'd suspect your 
> default
> > > > >gateway is wrong.  It should be set to the IP address of your router.
> > > >
> > > > I can ping the default gateway (as reported when in Windows) by IP, 
> so I
> > > > added that IP to the wireless card configuration in YaST, but I still
> > > > don't get beyond the (Windows) machine which is directly attached to
> > > > the router.  /etc/resolv.conf is left empty.
> > >
> > >If your LAN looks like this:
> > >
> > >( internet )
> > >      |
> > >  router (A)
> > >      |
> > >   Windows
> > >machine (B)
> > >      |
> > >   you (C)
> > >
> > >then A is B's gateway, and B is C's gateway.
> >
> > I used the same gateway IP as the T40 uses when it is booted up into
> > Windows, with the Dell Windows laptop shut down.
>
>What does that gateway address point to?  Also, if you can use DHCP in
>Windows, why not use it in Linux?  Also, without using DHCP, if
>/etc/resolv.conf is empty, names not in /etc/hosts won't be resolved.
>
>-

It appears to be the wireless router gateway address.

Since I got DHCP to assign an address for the wireless card under linux, I 
thought I was using it.  If /etc/hosts is an alternative, I guess I'll try 
putting names there.


Tim Prince