Re: Belkin PCI wireless card not working

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:12:05 +0000, Robert Harris wrote:

You are very close. If you have had a DHCP offer, then your parameters
match the router. By the way, the line

wireless-essid MyName

in your /etc/network/interfaces has the same effect as

iwconfig ra0 essid MyName

and the ifconfig ra0 up/down's don't have to be there: ifup ra0 will
bring it up and ifdown will bring it down.

The writer of the Wiki page notes a possible bug in the WPA handshake
which necessitates the up/downs. And one of the comments added to the
page recommends the additional wireless-essid if WPA isn't working.

1. Can you ping the IP address that the router has assigned to you?

You mean the address that I'm "bound" to? Then, yes.

2. Can you ping the router?

Sadly not. I get "Destination Host Unreachable".

If not, then something is wrong with your kernel routing table.

So what do I need to mend?

Don't give up now!

Dammit, no! Thanks for your assistance with this.

Ian

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