Linksys WPC54G Network Card not connecting to the internet

[cheetahman]

The card is on and a connection is established on KWiFiManager to the linksys router but for some reason it doesn't connect to the internet but when I boot into Windows XP it connects to the internet fine.

[cheetahman]

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:E6:58:F1
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::208:74ff:fee6:58f1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2076 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1959 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:14
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1042888 (1018.4 Kb) TX bytes:286170 (279.4 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x3000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:239 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:239 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17288 (16.8 Kb) TX bytes:17288 (16.8 Kb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:66:B3:49:97
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:66ff:feb3:4997/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1198 (1.1 Kb) TX bytes:3313 (3.2 Kb)
Interrupt:10

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b+/g+ ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"linux"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:4A:EF:88
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity=1/3
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr off
Encryption key off
Power Management off
Link Quality=50/100 Signal level=31/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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 eth0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

[hendrix]

Hey cheetahman,
did you find out what your problem was? I am having the same problem. I have a posting here http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-47437.html.

If you have any suggestions/advice, I would appreciate it.

[cheetahman]

Yeah but it goes on and off

[avasaralak]

Can you try disabling the ethernet interface and then bringing up the wlan interface. I also faced a similar problem and configuring the ethernet interface to manual (in yast) worked and I get automatic configuration of the wlan interface with WPA enabled.

[loft306]

cheetahman do you have the 'gateway' set for wlan0? << so that it can see the path to the inet.
can you ping the lan? << if you have one
can you ping google.com?
can you ping 216.239.57.99 ? << that is one of google's ip's

try the route command

/sbin/route

it will list the "Kernel IP routing table" for all nic's

[hendrix]

I found the source of my problem and I dont know if this will help you. I did not change the firewall setting as to my default interface after installation. All I had to do was go into the configuration menu for the firewall and change the default interface to wlan0. You can do this through the Mandrake control center.

I hope this helps someone with the same problem.

Here is my original post:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47437