Prism 2 Wireless under 2.6 kernel

[Rick Stevens]

Marc O'Morain wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I have recently updated my kernel to 2.6. Everything went smoothly apart
> from my wireless LAN.
> 
> I had the linux-wlan-ng driver installed for my Prism 2 based PCI wireless
> card. I was able to remove this driver and use the 2.6 kernel's native
> support for my card.
> 
> I have a wireless LAN in my house, and I can connect to it with DHCP. I
> can ping all the computers on the lan by ip address. I can ping any
> internet server by hostname or by ip address. I cannot however access
> anything on the web.
> 
> My windows partition can connect as normal.
> 
> My broswer resolves the hostname but the connection times out when trying
> to download anything. Wget resolves the hostname and then waits
> indefiantly trying to connect to any website.
> 
> Has anyone had any similar problems?
> Does it sound like I am missing something simple?
> 
> /sbin/route says that my default gateway is the same as it in in my
> windows partition, system-config-network says that all the settings that
> DHCP has set are the same as they are in windows.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Most likely you have a default iptables config which only allows DNS
through.  You could try turning off iptables ("chkconfig iptables off")
and see if you can get out.  If it works, make sure you use
"redhat-config-securitylevel"  (GUI: redhatlogo->System
Settings->Security Level) and enable the ports you want.
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