Re: wireless device has ip, can't ping

Obi, Thanks for the reply, i actually figured out what the problem was, finally. Often i just try out new stuff, usually after i know that something works, sometimes before and that can get you into those grey areas. I was plugging my WAP into a hardware router, not directly into my cable line s

Re: wireless device has ip, can't ping

I think that the other options would be to instruct your WAP to give you back a different DNS server. Mine has this option in the configuration. dhclient.conf is the same file: it just changed place lately (I'm running sid). If you edit the file you'll see a lot of commented out options and o

Re: wireless device has ip, can't ping

Oh yeah, i also added: #/etc/network/interfaces. auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp >Are you running DHCP? >You can see in /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts for a DHCP option. - yes to both, i did. /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts DHCP="y" >I use dhclient and I had to >modify /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to prece

Re: wireless device has ip, can't ping

>Are you running DHCP? >You can see in /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts for a DHCP option. - yes to both, i did. /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts DHCP="y" >I use dhclient and I had to >modify /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to precede my DNS to >the one coming from the dhcp server. -I'm not familiar with this fil

Re: wireless device has ip, can't ping

Are you running DHCP? I use dhclient and I had to modify /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to precede my DNS to the one coming from the dhcp server. You can see in /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts for a DHCP option. graziano On 2003.05.02 00:53, cmustard wrote: Ok, i know that this is because the system is n

wireless device has ip, can't ping

Ok, i know that this is because the system is not seeing the correct nameservers. I just installed this wireless card and it seems to come up ok, with the correct drivers etc, The problem is i can't ping aything not on my local network, like, 'yahoo.com', however i can ping: 64.58.79.230, which is