associated but no internet

[CRDANDRIDGE]

i'm able to ping other boxes on my net but when i go to google.com it times out...i'm using a dlink dwl-g520 and i went through the process of installing ndiswrapper and the drivers from dlink.com....i'm getting association but no internet...can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this problem?

[AlexK]

what is the output from these commands:

ping -c 4 your_router
ping -c 4 www.google.com
iwconfig
route

Also, if you have a wired card on your computer, temproarily disable it just so that everything goes through the wireless. You can disable wired card with "ifdown eth0" (without quotes).

[CRDANDRIDGE]

what is the output from these commands:

ping -c 4 your_router
ping -c 4 www.google.com
iwconfig
route

Also, if you have a wired card on your computer, temproarily disable it just so that everything goes through the wireless. You can disable wired card with "ifdown eth0" (without quotes).

here's the output of those 4 items

linux:/home/chas # ping -c 4 192.168.0.1
connect: Network is unreachable
linux:/home/chas # ping -c 4 www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
linux:/home/chas # iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"ephraim"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:3D:64:5B:42
          Bit Rate:36 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:53D5-C30A-427E-620F-3E52-12A6-5436-7DCE   Security mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=22/94  Signal level=-73 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

linux:/home/chas # route -n
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

[CRDANDRIDGE]

ok, so that was telling me that i don't have a route for ath0 so i went into yast and to network devices and gave the wireless card a static ip and gateway and this is the output of route -n...

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 ath0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 ath0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ath0

still can't ping router or get net, what should i do next?

[AlexK]

In yasts route configuration page:
Destination = Default
Gateway = 192.168.0.1
device = ath0

the problem with your routing table now is that no default route is set, so it doesn't know which route to use to connect to internet.

[CRDANDRIDGE]

whats wrong with this iptable? there is a default route in for ath0 and i'm still not able to access sites...what gives?

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0 ath0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 ath0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 ath0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

[AlexK]

what does pinging return, and have you started the interface and disabled any other interface (e.g. a wired card).

[CRDANDRIDGE]

i did disable the wired nic card and pinging with just the wireless interface active gives me "destination host unreachable"...i tried ping the router as well as other boxes on my lan....

[AlexK]

the routing table looks fine, and the card is associated to the ap right? i.e. the result from iwconfig is the same as you posted before?

Also since you are using SUSE, and it uses KInternet to tell the system which way to connect, did you tell KInternet to use ath0 as interface?

[CRDANDRIDGE]

this is the result of iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"ephraim"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:0F:3D:64:5B:42
          Bit Rate:48 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:D96F-9E07-1A2F-291D-D7E4-A310-91D0-2FB7   Security mode:restricted
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=13/94  Signal level=-82 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:6350  Rx invalid crypt:825  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:20  Invalid misc:20   Missed beacon:29

eth0      no wireless extensions.

i don't know what else to do...the card worked fine for a few days then i clicked on the kinternet icon and it disconnected and i haven't been able to get it connected again ever since...