New thread, broadcom 802-11 related

[Neil Cherry]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 18:53, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 08:02, Neil Cherry wrote:
>>> [huge snippage]
>> [ditto]
	:
> Progress of sorts Neil, I've managed to get it to talk to my local 
> network by doing an ifconfig eth0 down & then cycleing wlan0 down then 
> up.  It can now ping all the machines on my local network.  And while 
> it can resolve a tracerouted address, the traceroute itself is blocked 
> before it gets to my router.
> [root at diablo ~]# traceroute -i wlan0 google.com
> traceroute to google.com (64.233.167.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  * * *
	:
> 11  * * *
> 12  * * *
> etc etc
> and there is no traffic at the router after the dns lookup.
> Shutting down iptables for a few seconds makes no diff.
> 
> Screw it for tonight. The routing table on the lappy isn't sensible 
> either after all this by hand stuff but I don't think thats it when I 
> can ping all the locals, and ATM I'm ssh -X into 'wireless' which is an 
> alias for diablo that hits the wireless ports address, from this 
> machine.  The ethernet cable is unplugged and ssh is still working.
> 
> This machine has net acccess just fine, I was just reading /. for the 
> night.

Let's take a look at /etc/resolv.conf and the results of the
route command (replace the first 3 octets of your ISP's address
with a.b.c.)

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