wireless / system-config-network error message

Marc O'Morain fedora at marcomorain.com
Fri Jan 23 00:22:49 UTC 2004


Hi there,

When I run system-config-network from the command line I get the 
following output in the terminal:

"root at gibson ~ $ system-config-network
Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 16
of Wireless Extension, while we are using version 15.
Some things may be broken..."


Some things are broken :D

I have recently upgraded my Fedora install from 2.4 to 2.6. I removed 
the wlan-ng driver, and I am using the built in wireless driver.

My wireless chipset is detected automatically. Our DHCP server gives me 
an IP address. It also gives my the same DNS server addresses that my 
windows partition gives me. I can ping all the other machines on my home 
lan.

I cannot however access the internet. I can ping servers on the internet;
Ping www.google.com gives me:

PING www.google.akadns.net (216.239.59.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=79.8 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=78.4 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=79.4 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=78.4 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.59.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=245 time=78.4 ms

--- www.google.akadns.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 78.494/78.953/79.852/0.604 ms, pipe 2



If I try to use wget however, it times out:

root at gibson ~ $ wget google.com
--23:54:39--  http://google.com/
            => `index.html'
Resolving google.com... 216.239.57.99, 216.239.39.99, 216.239.37.99
Connecting to google.com[216.239.57.99]:80... gle.com
--23:54:39--  http://google.com/
            => `index.html'
Resolving google.com... 216.239.57.99, 216.239.39.99, 216.239.37.99
Connecting to google.com[216.239.57.99]:80...



It stalls there and does nothing. My web browser just times out also.

Here is my ifconfig:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:0A:CB:D1
           inet addr:192.168.0.8  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fe0a:cbd1/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:16019 (15.6 Kb)  TX bytes:4322 (4.2 Kb)
           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x3000 Memory:f8000000-f8000fff

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:3197 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:3197 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:2548618 (2.4 Mb)  TX bytes:2548618 (2.4 Mb)



Here is my resolv.conf:

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
nameserver 212.159.13.49
nameserver 212.159.13.50



Here is the result 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 eth1
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth1
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 eth1



Does anyone know what the error message means about the compiled 
versions? Any help would be appreciated.


Kindest Regards,

Marc






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