Just need a little help to get on to Internet with Wireless PCMCIA card in FC2
Edward
edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 18 03:18:07 UTC 2005
Rebel wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed FC 2 and had lot of problem with PCMCIA
> card.
> I finally managed to start my PCMCIA card (Xircom)
> (using /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart ) but
> I still cannot log on to internet. If i ping
> www.yahoo.com
>
> I am not on the network however I can see the ssid of
> the network I tried to put using
> ifconfig eth0 essid linksys
>
> and iwconfig shows me the details for this ssid as
>
> eth0 < ...>
>
> wifi0 <...>
>
> Am I missing something to get on to internet? I do see
> that this laptop is in the clients in my router table
> entries but I cannot ping it either from another
> machin e. Its not responding!!
>
> Please help!
> Thanks
> Rebel
Bad explanation of the setup you really have, but the way you say things
I'm going to assume you're trying to connect to a broadband router
wirelessly.
Check your routing table and ifconfig to see if the gateway and DNS ip
listings are correct for the router.
Regards,
Ed.
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