Network Trouble

**Bailz** · 12-16-2005

I've succesfully set up a Wireless home network using Belkin hardware. The network is functional on a Windows machine (the machine I'm posting this from) but the Linux box up the stairs is not as functional.

I'm using ndiswrapper to control the wireless adapter pci card. The card can see the network and can be pinged from the Windows machine. The Linux machine cannot browser the web, receive emails or ping either the router or the Windows machine.

I'm guessing that I need to configure Linux to use this network connection but I'm not too sure how. Any help greatly appreciated.

**puntmuts** · 12-16-2005

Could you post the output of:

Code:

ifconfig
route -n

for your Linux machine.

**Bailz** · 12-16-2005

ifconfig

Code:

lo  Link encap&#58; Local loopback
    inet eddr&#58; 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
    UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU&#58;16436 Metric&#58; 1
    Rx packets&#58; 60 errors&#58; 0 dropped&#58; 0 overruns&#58; 0 frame&#58; 0
    Tx packets&#58; 60 errors&#58; 0 dropped&#58; 0 overruns&#58; 0 frame&#58; 0
    collisions&#58; 0 txqueuelen&#58; 0
    Rx bytes&#58; 4892&#40;4.7kb&#41; Tx bytes&#58; 4892&#40;4.7kb&#41;

wlan0  Link encap&#58; Ethernet HWaddr 00&#58;11&#58;50&#58;8F&#58;4B&#58;6G
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU&#58; 1500 Metric&#58; 1
          Rx Packets&#58; 190 errors&#58; 0 dropped&#58; 0 overruns&#58; 0 frame&#58; 0
          collisions&#58; 0 txqueuelen&#58; 1000
          Rx bytes&#58; 28508&#40;27.8kb&#41; Tx bytes&#58; 0&#40;0kb&#41;
          Interrupt&#58; 3 Memory&#58; feafe000 - feb00000

route -n

Code:

Kernel IP Routing Table
Destination    Gateway    Genmask    Flags    Metric    Ref    Use    Iface
127.0.0.0      0.0.0.0       255.0.0.0    U         0           0       0       lo

**winter** · 12-19-2005

first of all run the following as root.

Code:

dhclient

check ifconfig to see if you have got an address.

if not first of all run as root the following

Code:

ifconfig -a wlan0 ipaddress subnet address

change ip address for the ip you want to give the system, and change subnet address for the subnet of the network.

then

Code:

route add 0 ip of the router

replace ip of the router with the ip address that the router has

to config dns run

Code:

echo ip of router > /etc/resolv.conf

yet again use the ip of your router

**Bailz** · 12-19-2005

ifconfig route -n gives:

Code:

-n: Unknown host

dhclient gives:

Code:

bash: dhclient: Command not found.

ifconfig -a gives:

Code:

SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid Argument

Bailz.

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