[vox-tech] Wireless problem

[Richard Harke]

On Mon June 5 2006 20:13, Joshua Morris wrote:
> On 6/6/06, Richard Harke <rharke at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I bought a wireless access point and it works fine with windows,
> > to my wife's laptop, and to my laptop with either the built-in
> > (Broadcom) or a PCMCIA card (Netgear prism54)
> > After a lot of effort, I have the card coming up, (driver loading,
> > firmware loading) but I still can't pass traffic over it. I found the
> > docs on wireless extension in the interfaces file and it looks like
> > every thing is loading OK. iwconfig shows the right key and essid.
> > ifconfig shows the right IP address. The route table enteries are
> > just the same for eth1 (wifi)  as for eth0 (ethernet) Except different
> > IP address. I can't ping my other machine on the local net.
> > I tried the ping in the other direction, to the IP address I gave
> > to eth1 my that is no-go also. All the error counts are zero.
> > The only real clue seems to be a message in dmesg:
> > no IPV6 routers But why doesn't it use IPV4? i don't see
> > any config variables for this.
> >
> > Richard Harke
> >
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> Hi Richard,
>
> I get the same error when i connect to my wireless router about no PV6
> routers so i think that is fine.  I use dhcp for addressing my ip since i
> go to coffee shops and use the free wifi at school.  I use a dlink dwl-650
> ($20 at fry's refurb) and madwifi-ng drivers and no problems.  sometimes it
> will just not work so i will have to restart iwconfig by directing it to a
> non existent router and the set it back to the router i want.  have not
> been able to isolate the problem when this happens to me but this trick
> seems to work.
>
> Joshua
Well, I got it by random trying things. I did ifdown eth0 and eth1 started 
working. I guess it didn't like two interfaces to the same network.
Thanks anyway and thanks to Ken also
Richard