I am pulling my hair out trying to set up a ??simple?? wireless network. Everything seems to be working, but I cannot ping any other computer on the network. The setup * Dell Optiplex 260 (P4 2.49 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 140+40 MB drives) hostname stingray * Windows XP is installed on the 40 GB drive and I just did a net install of Debian (2.6.8-2-386) on the 140 GB drive. Grub handles the dual boot. * Network card = D-Link DWL-G520 , HW rev B3, Firmware 4.20 * I am using madwifi 1.7-3 drivers compiled from source * ifplugd 0.26 to detect which network card is active - wireless or integrated ethernet port * wpasupplicant 0.3.8-1 for security later Some sample command uutput: stingray:/home/mark# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"PMI" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: 00:12:17:0A:57:85 Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/94 Signal level=-95 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. ------------------------------------------------------------------- stingray:/home/mark# ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:46:E3:68:2B inet addr:192.168.25.125 Bcast:192.168.25.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:46ff:fee3:682b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1172 errors:7435 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:7435 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:200 RX bytes:73606 (71.8 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:169 Memory:e08b1000-e08c1000 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:CC:3C:17 inet6 addr: fe80::208:74ff:fecc:3c17/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Base address:0xdcc0 Memory:ff6c0000-ff6e0000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:144614 (141.2 KiB) TX bytes:144614 (141.2 KiB) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- stingray:/home/mark# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.25.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 ath0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ath0 stingray:/home/mark# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.25.125 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.25.255 gateway 192.168.25.1 # The wireless network interface allow-hotplug ath0 iface ath0 inet static wpa-driver madwifi wpa-ssid PMI address 192.168.25.125 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.25.255 gateway 192.168.25.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- If I boot into XP, the wireless card connects and works, so I believe the hardware is OK. What am I missing or doing wrong? When I try to ping another computer on my network I get "host unreachable". -- Mark Phillips Phillips Marketing, Inc mark@phillipsmarketing.biz 602 524-0376 480 945-9197 fax --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss