I just got Verizon's fios and love the high bandwidth. But I can't get
my gentoo laptop fully connected through a wireless connection. Has
anyone been through this already? Here are the highlights:
- I'm using a Verizon supplied an Actiontec router which includes
wireless and seems to be a pretty nice linux based router.
- a Nintendo Wii makes a wireless connection and accesses internet sites
fine, so the Verizon-provided Actiontec router seems to be set up ok.
- the gentoo laptop requests (via "dhcpcd eth1") and receives an ip
address from the router's WAP. I thought I'd be home free at this
point, but not so.
- using wireshark to watch a "ping 192.168.1.1" I can see a 192.168.1.1
ARP packet tell the laptop its mac address, then the laptop starts to
send out a ICMP echo requests...and gets no response. Firewall settings
in the router are at the minimal setting for this test.
- my laptop connects fine to my neighbor's WAP and reaches the internet.
So if it weren't for the Wii successfully connecting and getting out
I'd say the firewall is to blame. I get the same symptoms trying to
access web sites or even https://192.168.1.1 which is set up for this
test to allow me to administer via wireless.
- FWIW:
kryten mm # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
I'm stumped at the moment and hope someone sees what I'm missing.
Thanks very much for any ideas.
Mike
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