Newbie: Wireless on Fedora 2, can't ping my Linksys router !

[freek sanders]

This is my first post here, so if I am doing something wrong please tell me !


I am planning to learn more about Linux, and have installed Fedora Core 2 on a dual boot system together with Windows XP pro.

Because linux isn't linux without internet, I would like to go online with Fedora. However, I connect to the internet using a wireless card (Linksys: WMP54G), and there is no appropriate linux driver for this device.

After some searching, I tried to get everything working with the ndiswrapper, following a tut. I found on the internet. Most of the instructions went just fine, but I can't seem to ping my router (a linksys WRT54G, local IP: 192.168.1.1)

Can someone please help me?

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Some command print outs:
(PS: with the route command I did see my router's IP address)

[root@localhost root]# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:41:61:A9:A4
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:41ff:fe61:a9a4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2203 (2.1 Kb) TX bytes:10582 (10.3 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Memory:e6000000-e6001fff

[root@localhost root]# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
102 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 101008ms

[root@localhost root]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:AA:EA:88
Bit Rate=36Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:19 Invalid misc:54 Missed beacon:0

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My etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 bestand:

# NDIS Wrapper Configuration: Linksys WMP54G
DEVICE=wlan0
onBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Managed
ESSID=linksys
CHANNEL=11
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=no
RATE=Auto
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=00:0c:41:61:a9:a4
GATEWAY=
IPV6INIT=yes

[lakerdonald]

make sure you have your router set up to reply to pings originating from inside the LAN. i know that sounds stupid but sometimes that's all it takes!
-lakerdonald

[freek sanders]

I can now ping the router (a standard setting was blocking nameless pings)

However, I can still not ping sites (www.google.nl) nor surf.

[lakerdonald]

well that's good news. can you ping 216.239.39.104 (google.nl) by doing

ping 216.239.39.104

instead of

ping google.nl

cos if you can, that means that you simply have a problem with your DNS server and need to correctly configure your router to do so
-lakerdonald

[freek sanders]

The IP address ping worked, and the other one didn't.

Thus I figgured it must be a DNS problem. I found the solution online, it involved editing my /etc/resolve.conf file.

/etc/resolve.conf

OLD:
search localdomain

NEW:
search localdomain
nameserver 194.134.5.5
nameserver 194.134.0.97


Now I can go online !

Thank you very much for your help.

PS: I am typing this from Firefox running on Fedora Core 2.

[lakerdonald]

No Problem.After spending two months trying to get wireless to work, i empathize with your position. lol
-lakerdonald

[stealthboy]

I'm also have a ton of issues getting my wireless working under FC2.

Dell Latitude D600, so it uses the Broadcom set. I installed ndiswrapper, loaded the appropriate drivers, and went through all the installation steps.

What I have now:

1) iwlist scan shows all the wireless networks i should be able to see.
2) iwconfig shows my wlan0 config, seemingly correct (with the right essid, access point MAC address, signal strength, etc).
3) ifconfig wlan0 seems to work

The problem is that I cannot ping the wireless router! I'm using a Linksys, and it works fine with windows machines around, but I cannot get any pings to work at all. I can see the wireless network, and I seem to have the wlan0 device set up, but pings don't respond.

I've googled and googled but have found nothing that helps.

So if I've successfully done all the iwconfig and ifconfig stuff and it seems like it's all set up and should work, but I cannot ping my wireless router or anything else, what would be the problem?

The wireless router is 192.168.1.1, so I manually assigned wlan0 an IP of 192.168.0.13 (dhclient doesn't work - just times out).

This is so frustrating!