[olug] Wireless Help

[Jordan Wilberding]

When you say they can "talk" do you just mean in general?

Did you make sure they are on the same subnetwork?


On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 15:31, Joe Catanzaro wrote:
> I'm setting up a wireless network, and so far things are going pretty good. 
> I've got a PCI D-Link DWL-520+ card in a RH 7.3 box and a PCMCIA D-Link DWL 
> 650+ in a Windows laptop. The card in the Windows laptop appears to be 
> working fine. I've tested it in two laptops and it comes up, etc. The card 
> in the RH 7.3 box also comes up and attempts to "talk" to the laptop. 
> STDOUT on my console show packets going out, and also being received, but 
> nothing that will allow them to ping each other. I'm assuming there's 
> something wrong on the RH box, but I don't know enough about Linux wireless 
> to properly troubleshoot this. Also note, the RH box has another NIC that 
> works great on my internal network and communicates properly with the 
> laptop when I use a normal NIC in the laptop. And I'm guessing I'm going to 
> eventually have to add a route on the RH box to point the wireless NIC to 
> my firewall, but I'm assuming that won't affect my current problem. I'm 
> currently working through a few HowTos and I'm not very impressed with 
> them. Let me know if you have any suggestions for my problem or an 
> excellent reference for Linux wireless.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Joe Catanzaro
> joecatanzaro at cox.net 
> 
> 
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