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#
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/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
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