Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:40:06 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jayton Garnett <jay@codegurus.org> Subject: Re: wireless, ndis and my ovislink wl8000 Message-ID: <200509181540.07083.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <432CC7A8.2090303@codegurus.org> References: <432CC7A8.2090303@codegurus.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart1139662.i7Vut7oY9t Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 18 September 2005 11:19, Jayton Garnett wrote: > I have managed to get my wifi card UP and associated with my router, but > I can not work with it (i.e ping bbc.co.uk, view web pages etc) > Gnome's network monitor reports 0% strength, yet I can access my routers The signal strength stuff is probably not available via ndis, so ignore tha= t. > setup page but not any other webpage on the internet. > When I go to view the wireless clients connected to my router it reports > none are connected, yet I am viewing the setup pages! > I disabled my realtek with: > ifconfig rl0 down > I do not have WEP enabled. > Before Gnome started up I noticed something about another interface > using the same IP as my ndis0 device. What exactly? > If you require any further details please ask. Where is your default route going? > desktop# ping bbc.co.uk > PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.131): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: Network is down > ping: sendto: Network is down > ^C > --- bbc.co.uk ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > desktop# I suggest you ifconfig rl0 delete otherwise the routing table may indicate= =20 that packets should go via rl0 which is down, hence the error message. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1139662.i7Vut7oY9t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDLQS/5ZPcIHs/zowRAgeYAKCW+Etw+6NbFr2V0u/9PsFjAlxi3QCgqCwe Ui11W6crdE/65FvuJgeqSO8= =xxYl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1139662.i7Vut7oY9t--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200509181540.07083.doconnor>